Sector: Other (Pastoral communities in conflict)
Location: Afar Region, Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, Afar Region, nomadic pastoral communities were in conflict with each other because of impending famine and tremendous loss of cattle .
After a few days of camping in the desert, Abdulkadir the translator, confided to the PD INGO team what he overheard from a conversation among several of the elders. They were amazed at the fact that the outsiders had come 3 times to the water hole to “sit at our feet, and listen to us!” “Not even our own children pay us that kind of respect,” one man added.