Climate change turns Tanzania's Maasai livestock keepers into hairdressers


DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- For Ray Lipasho Kimeshwa, a Maasai man who hails from the Kiteto district in Tanzania's northern region of Manyara, climate change has left an indelible mark on his life.

Kimeshwa, 39, was the proud owner of 100 cattle in the 1990s through the early 2000s when drought caused by climate change started to kill some of his animals.

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