A Turkana tribeswoman reacts after an accidental fire of a shelter in Turkana settlement in Ilemi Triangle, Kenya, July 15, 2019. Reuters Photographer Goran Tomasevic: "First, the lookouts saw a footprint, then a suspected spy from a rival ethnic group, scuttling off into the bush. Expecting an attack, young men grabbed their guns and mothers grabbed their children - there are few state security forces in this remote area of northern Kenya. The Ilemi Triangle, a disputed sliver of land along the border with Ethiopia and South Sudan, is the northernmost tip of Turkana, Kenya's poorest county. A series of deadly clashes between the community and other ethnic groups that they said had crossed from South Sudan have put people on edge. Farmers and nomads frequently clash over limited resources. Livestock is the most important currency here. The danger is real. I saw several places scattered with skulls or bones with shredded clothing. Families drink from the same muddy pools as their livestock. There are few schools Ð children instead help herd cows to nearby watering holes. Chief Eipa Choro said the community felt abandoned by the government; clean water from an aid group's borehole was two hours' drive away. The nearest police station several hours away. We weren't attacked during the time I spent with them, but each time we moved, the community sent out scouts to secure the way and try to spot potential ambushes from cattle raiders. Raids can be a disaster for a community." REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo SEARCH "POY STORIES 2019" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

As the village wells dried up and her livestock died in the scorched scrubland of southern Somalia, Abdir Hussein had one last chance to save her family from starvation: the beauty of her 14-year-old daughter, Zeinab. Last year, an older man offered $1,000 for her dowry, enough to take her extended family to Dollow, a Somali town on the Ethiopian border where international aid agencies are handing out food and water to families fleeing a devastating drought. Zeinab refused. "I would rather die. It is better that I run into the bush and be eaten by lions," said the slender dark-eyed girl in a high, soft voice. "Then we will stay and starve to death and the animals will eat all of our bones," her mother shot back. The exchange, related to Reuters by the teenager and her mother, is typical of the choices facing Somali families after two years of poor rains. Crops withered and the white bones of livestock are scattered across the Horn of Africa nation. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "ZEINAB DOLLOW" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

As the village wells dried up and her livestock died in the scorched scrubland of southern Somalia, Abdir Hussein had one last chance to save her family from starvation: the beauty of her 14-year-old daughter, Zeinab. Last year, an older man offered $1,000 for her dowry, enough to take her extended family to Dollow, a Somali town on the Ethiopian border where international aid agencies are handing out food and water to families fleeing a devastating drought. Zeinab refused. "I would rather die. It is better that I run into the bush and be eaten by lions," said the slender dark-eyed girl in a high, soft voice. "Then we will stay and starve to death and the animals will eat all of our bones," her mother shot back. The exchange, related to Reuters by the teenager and her mother, is typical of the choices facing Somali families after two years of poor rains. Crops withered and the white bones of livestock are scattered across the Horn of Africa nation. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "ZEINAB DOLLOW" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Former US President George W. Bush looks on as children perform a play during a visit to a school in Gaborone, Botswana, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Former US President George W. Bush speaks to health workers during a visit to a clinic in Gaborone, Botswana's capital, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Former US President George W. Bush greets children at a school in Gaborone, Botswana, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Former US President George W. Bush poses for a photograph with children at a school in Gaborone, Botswana, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Former US President George W. Bush speaks to health workers during a visit to a clinic in Gaborone, Botswana, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Former US President George W. Bush poses for a photograph with children at a school in Gaborone, Botswana, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Former US President George W. Bush greets children at a school in Gaborone, Botswana, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Former US President George W. Bush waves as he arrives in Gaborone, Botswana, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Former US President George W. Bush greets children at a school in Gaborone, Botswana, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

Former US President George W. Bush greets children at a school in Gaborone, Botswana, April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings 

A man, who was wounded during the fighting between South Sudan's army, rebels and rival tribes, is pushed on a stretcher after his admission at a hospital in Bor July 15, 2013. The fighting has sent thousands of people fleeing into the bush in the east of the country, U.N. and aid officials said on Sunday. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) 

A man, who was wounded during the fighting between South Sudan's army, rebels and rival tribes, talks on a mobile phone while resting at a hospital in Bor July 15, 2013. The fighting has sent thousands of people fleeing into the bush in the east of the country, U.N. and aid officials said on Sunday. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) 

A man, who was wounded during the fighting between South Sudan's army, rebels and rival tribes, rests at a hospital in Bor July 15, 2013. The fighting has sent thousands of people fleeing into the bush in the east of the country, U.N. and aid officials said on Sunday. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) 

A man, who was wounded during the fighting between South Sudan's army, rebels and rival tribes, rests at a hospital in Bor July 15, 2013. The fighting has sent thousands of people fleeing into the bush in the east of the country, U.N. and aid officials said on Sunday. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) 

Men, who were wounded during the fighting between South Sudan's army, rebels and rival tribes, rest at a hospital in Bor July 15, 2013. The fighting has sent thousands of people fleeing into the bush in the east of the country, U.N. and aid officials said on Sunday. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) 

A man, who was wounded during the fighting between South Sudan's army, rebels and rival tribes, rests at a hospital in Bor July 15, 2013. The fighting has sent thousands of people fleeing into the bush in the east of the country, U.N. and aid officials said on Sunday. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) 

Former U.S. President George W. Bush (C) carries an Ethiopian child whose mother is receiving HIV treatment through programmes funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), after arriving with his wife former First Lady Laura Bush in the capital Addis Ababa December 4, 2011. Bush launched PEPFAR during his presidency in 2003. REUTERS/Aron Maasho (ETHIOPIA - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS SOCIETY) 

Former U.S. President George W. Bush (L) and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete participate in a televised satellite discussion with other dignitaries in Washington DC on World Aids Day at the Ocean Road Cancer Institute in Dar es Salaam Tanzania December 1, 2011. REUTERS/Emmanuel Kwitema (TANZANIA - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS) 

Former U.S. President George W. Bush (2nd R) and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete pose for photographs with HIV/AIDS and cancer patients as they visit Ocean Road Cancer Institute in Dar es Salaam December 1, 2011. REUTERS/Emmanuel Kwitema (TANZANIA - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS SOCIETY) 

Former U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush arrive at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital to see the government efforts in the prevention of transmission of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam December 1st, 2011. REUTERS/Emmanuel Kwitema (TANZANIA - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS) 

A soldier lies unconscious on an operating table at a health clinic run by the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) after being transported through the bush for four days with shrapnel wounds and a leg shattered by a rocket propelled grenade explosion, in the town of Nasir in southeastern Sudan, June 21, 2009. Tribal violence in south Sudan that has killed hundreds of people in recent months and displaced thousands more in the past week. Attacks stemming from disputes over cattle have escalated in recent months in south Sudan between two rival ethnic groups in an area where livestock are prized by southern pastoralists and represent wealth, status and stability in fraught times. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (SUDAN CONFLICT MILITARY HEALTH IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A group of Senegalese farmers finish the day's work in a cabbage field on a small Senegalese farm at Djilakh, 80 km (50 miles) southeast of Dakar, August 28, 2008 . Less than a year ago, the land around this small Senegalese village was parched bush pasture, studded with thick-trunked, knobbly baobab trees. But over the last six months, ground pockmarked with anthills that lay hard and idle during the nine-month dry season has blossomed through irrigation into a thriving small commercial farm thanks to an aid project funded by Spain. Picture taken August 28, 2008. REUTERS/Ricci Shryock (SENEGAL) TO MATCH FEATURE AID-DEVELOPMENT/MELONS 

U.S. President George W. Bush hugs two students who had just performed a play for him on the subject of abstaining from sex as a way to avoid HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancy, during his visit to the Lycee de Kigali school in Kigali, Rwanda, February 19, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed (RWANDA) 

Three-year-old Faith Mang'ehe, whose mother is HIV-positive, attends a roundtable session with her mother on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief with U.S. President George W. Bush at Amana District Hospital care and treatment clinic in Dar es Salaam February 17, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young (TANZANIA) 

Tatu Msangi (R), who is HIV-positive, holds her daughter Faith during a roundtable on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief with U.S. President George W. Bush at Amana District Hospital care and treatment clinic in Dar es Salaam February 17, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Young (TANZANIA) 

U.S. President George W. Bush departs the White House in Washington to begin his trip to Africa February 15, 2008. Bush is visiting Africa to highlight efforts to boost development and fight AIDS and other diseases.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES) 

U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush depart the White House in Washington as they begin their trip to Africa February 15, 2008. Bush is visiting Africa to highlight efforts to boost development and fight AIDS and other diseases. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES) 

U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush depart the White House in Washington as they begin their trip to Africa February 15, 2008. Bush is visiting Africa to highlight efforts to boost development and fight AIDS and other diseases. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES) 

A Secret Service agent keeps watch as U.S. President George W. Bush speaks about his upcoming trip to Africa during a visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington February 14, 2008. Bush travels to Africa on Friday to highlight efforts to boost development and fight AIDS and other diseases.
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U.S. President George W. Bush speaks about his upcoming trip to Africa during a visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington February 14, 2008. Bush travels to Africa on Friday to highlight efforts to boost development and fight AIDS and other diseases.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES) 

U2 lead singer and activist Bono (C) kisses Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (L) after receiving the National Constitution Center's 2007 Liberty Medal in Philadelphia, September 27, 2007. Bono and the advocacy organization DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa), an organization developed to combat poverty and disease in Africa received the award which recognizes leadership and vision in the pursuit of liberty and conscience or freedom from oppression, ignorance, or deprivation . At right is former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush is welcomed by schoolchildren as she arrives at Nelson Mandela school in Bamako June 29, 2007. Bush is on a four-nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. Picture taken June 29, 2007. REUTERS/Rainer Schwenzfeier (MALI) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush is welcomed by schoolchildren as she arrives at the Nelson Mandela school in Bamako June 29, 2007. Bush is on a four-nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Rainer Schwenzfeier (MALI) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (R) with her daughter Jenna (L) participate in a visit to FLAME, a project for women empowerment in Lusaka June 28, 2007. Bush is on a four-nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Mackson Wasamunu (ZAMBIA) 

Jenna Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, sits with children in a classroom at Regiment School in Lusaka June 28, 2007. U.S. first lady Laura Bush is on a four-nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Mackson Wasamunu (ZAMBIA) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush visits children in a classroom in Regiment School in Lusaka June 28, 2007. Bush is on a four-nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Mackson Wasamunu (ZAMBIA) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (L) poses for a photograph with Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa at State House in Lusaka June 28, 2007. Bush is on a four-nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Mackson Wasamunu (ZAMBIA) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (L) greets Mozambique President Armando Guebuza (C) and his wife Maria Guebuza in Maputo June 27, 2007. Bush is on a four-nation trip to Africa to highlight the U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/ SIPHIWE SIBEKO (MOZAMBIQUE) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (R) walks with her Mozambique counterpart Maria Guebuza after giving a talk at the seminary in Maputo June 27, 2007. Bush is on a four-nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/ Siphiwe Sibeko (MOZAMBIQUE) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush leaves after giving a talk at the seminary in Maputo,June 27, 2007. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (MOZAMBIQUE) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (L) shares a light moment with her Mozambique counterpart Maria Guebuza in Maputo,June 27, 2007. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (MOZAMBIQUE) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (L) greets Mozambican President Armando Guebuza in Maputo,June 27, 2007. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (MOZAMBIQUE) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush gestures as she speaks at the seminary in Maputo June 27, 2007. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (MOZAMBIQUE) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush speaks at a seminary in Maputo June 27, 2007. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education.
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (MOZAMBIQUE) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (2nd R) and her Senegalese counterpart Viviane Wade (R) look at books at the Grand Medine primary school in Dakar, June 26, 2007. Mrs. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. With them are two unidentified Senegalese school administrators. REUTERS/Candace Feit (SENEGAL) 

Jenna Bush (2nd L) sits with children at the Grand Medine primary school in Dakar, June 26, 2007. U.S. first lady Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna are on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight US commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Candace Feit (SENEGAL) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush delivers a speech at the Grand Medine primary school in Dakar, June 26, 2007. Mrs. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Candace Feit (SENEGAL) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush distributes mosquito nets at the Fann hospital in Dakar, June 26, 2007. Mrs. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. Looking on is Jenna Bush (C in blue). REUTERS/Candace Feit (SENEGAL) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush delivers a speech at the Grand Medine primary school in Dakar, June 26, 2007. Mrs. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Candace Feit (SENEGAL) 

Jenna Bush (2nd L) sits with children at the Grand Medine primary school in Dakar, June 26, 2007. U.S. first lady Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna are on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight US commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Candace Feit (SENEGAL) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (L) poses for a photograph with her Senegalese counterpart Viviane Wade during a visit to the Senegal's capital Dakar, June 26, 2007. Mrs. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Candace Feit (SENEGAL) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (L) and daughter Jenna visit a garden at the Fann hospital in Dakar, June 26, 2007. Mrs. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight the U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Candace Feit (SENEGAL) 

U.S. first lady Laura Bush (L) and daughter Jenna visit a garden at the Fann hospital in Dakar, June 26, 2007. Mrs. Bush is on a four nation trip to Africa to highlight the U.S. commitment to fight AIDS, malaria and to promote education. REUTERS/Candace Feit (SENEGAL) 

U.S. President George W. Bush, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and South African President Thabo Mbeki (L-R) chat as they line up for a family photo in Heiligendamm June 8, 2007. World leaders meeting in Germany turned their attention to Africa on Friday, agreeing a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging the continent, according to a diplomat. REUTERS/Chris Wattie (GERMANY) 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, French President Nicolas Sarkozy (top row L-R), Chinese President Hu Jintao, U.S. President George W. Bush and South African President Thabo Mbeki (front row, L-R) line up for a family photo in Heiligendamm June 8, 2007. World leaders meeting in Germany turned their attention to Africa on Friday, agreeing a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging the continent, according to a diplomat. REUTERS/Chris Wattie (GERMANY) 

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, U.S. President George W. Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and South African President Thabo Mbeki (L-R) chat as they line up for a family photo in Heiligendamm June 8, 2007. World leaders meeting in Germany turned their attention to Africa on Friday, agreeing a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging the continent, according to a diplomat. REUTERS/Chris Wattie (GERMANY) 

Chinese President Hu Jintao, U.S. President George W. Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy (obscured), South African President Thabo Mbeki, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (L-R) chat as they line up for a family photo in Heiligendamm June 8, 2007. World leaders meeting in Germany turned their attention to Africa on Friday, agreeing a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging the continent, according to a diplomat. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (GERMANY)