Afghan drought hits nomads By Kate Clarke in Ghazni Nomads in Afghanistan are desperately trying to survive one of the severest droughts in decades. Hundreds of thousands of people have travelled north from the drought-ridden winter grazing areas around the southern city of Kandahar. But the nomads summer pastures have also failed, and their flocks are being wiped out.
People are selling their animals to buy flour - that is if they have any livestock left.
I met families who had lost almost all their stock. Men are trying to find work as labourers in Ghazni town but this town hardly has enough work for its own people, let alone this huge influx of nomads. Women are spinning wool. If they work all day, they can earn enough to buy four or five pieces of bread, not enough to feed themselves or their children. In this deeply religious country, people are asking why God has sent a drought to Afghanistan.