Africa’s climate challenge is now a security crisis
Anna Namasi, 40, from the Maasai pastoralist community, handles the dry carcass of her cattle that died following worsening drought near Magadi township along the Kenya-Tanzania border, in Kajiado, Kenya on February 5, 2026.
The recent pastoralist–farmer tensions reported in Kitui County, Kenya, are a powerful reminder that climate security is no longer an abstract policy debate.
As drought conditions intensify in traditionally arid areas, herders are being forced to move farther in search of pasture and water, creating new migratory routes across counties once outside seasonal grazing patterns.
