But now there are no cattle to watch. On the plains even the wind is burning hot, dry and dusty. There is no grass around for miles and miles. Now the cows can be found as carcasses strewn all over the landscape. There is a hamlet with a few derelict huts covered by plastic sheeting bartered from the nearby refugee camp.
Several huts look completely abandoned but a small group of women and children remains.
The place is called Nanam. But the relief supplies are not exactly plentiful and the toddlers cannot stomach the coarse maize very well. Another reason for the diseases can probably be found in the muddy water that the women collect from wells dug by hand into the riverbed. The men have left with the cattle to look for pasture. Or they look for work in the nearest towns, first and foremost Lokichokio where relief flights to southern Sudan take off every day.