The animals with their fearsome horns look emaciated. The land doesn't yield enough grass for the cattle, because of a long lasting drought. The northeast is the hottest part of Rwanda. The sun parches the land in Umutara prefecture. The distance between the few waterholes is very far.
Kids even leave school to look after the cattle.
Travelling through the Umutara region one meets pastoralists with their browsing herds all over the area. The Northeast is cattle land. This still doesn't meet the needs of the people. LWF has also distributed drought resistent seeds such as sorghum and helped the villagers in constructing trenches around their fields to protect them against wild boar eating the crop. Tanzania In Umutara prefecture the civil war started in the Nineties.