"The livestock market at Haro Bakke, Borena, is functioning again but with cattle herds decimated by the drought very few animals are for sale"

From This Site (http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=50&ReportId=71663&Country=Yes)

"Goats are important animals for Borana. They are more drought resistant than cattle and only need access to water every five days. The Borana use them for their milk, meat, selling and they use them as gifts for relatives. They don't destroy grass like camels. They can sell them at a good price. Their hides are also used for selling. Goats drink after the cattle have finished."

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These camels are on their way to the “Singing Well” to be watered.

The cattle on the right are being driven to a watering hole near Kijiji, Kenya

The Borana are traditionally semi-nomadic pastoralists, who depend exclusively on their livestock for subsistence, and whose lives revolve around the cattle. The traditional hand-dug desert wells are vital to the Borana people, especially during the dry season when they provide water for the animals and people; there are no other substantial water sources in the area.

The entrance of a well is not free. If anyone needs water from a well that doesn’t belong to their clan, they must appeal to the clan owners of the well who will decide if they can have it.

(From this site)

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The Borana use camels as pack animals, for meat and for milk.  They do not ride them as some nomadic tribes do.  The photo above is a Borana woman in the middle of the desert leading her

camel.  The camel is carrying the traditional Borana nomadic house.  You can see a better picture of this on the “Nomads” page.

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