Northeast Kenya is hit by drought. Residents of Mandera County, located along Kenya's borders with Ethiopia and Somalia, have not seen rain since May.
Some villagers were forced to drag their dead animals into remote fields to burn them.
"Our lives are in great danger. Initially we had cows and goats as our livelihood, but as you saw here I lost about 28 head of cattle in total', confided Bishar Maalim Mohamed, breeder.
Mandera County is now on the brink of a major water crisis. In some villages, most residents are herders who rely heavily on their animals, who die one by one from dehydration.
"What we urgently need is mostly water and maybe livestock feed, because we have a few animals left. And if they are not fed, in a month we will have no more livestock", said Hesbon Kayesi, deputy county commissioner.
More than two million people in 23 counties in Kenya face growing food insecurity. The National Drought Management Authority has placed about nine counties on alert, while mandera County is in an "alarm" phase, one step away from the official state of emergency.
"Generally speaking, looking at the drought situation as a whole, the distance tankers traveled has also increased, so communities have lost a lot of livestock, which will have long-term impacts term on their livelihoods, as most of them are pastoral communities and this will actually affect their livelihoods at present", said Adan Mustafa, County Coordinator, Kenya Red Cross, Mandera Branch.
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network recently said that 20 to 25 million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are in need of humanitarian food assistance more than half of which due to drought.
