
Fault Lines - Horn of Africa Crisis - Drought Zone
Kenya's drought zone sits at the center of this Fault Lines report, filmed while world leaders gather in Durban for United Nations climate talks. The crew travels through the Horn of Africa during a hunger emergency that has pushed millions into crisis, asking a pointed question: how do US agricultural and foreign aid policies intersect with the drought and food shortages unfolding on the ground? The film sets the diplomatic conference against the reality facing pastoralist communities and refugees, tracing what American food aid, trade rules, and biofuel policy actually do once they reach East Africa, for better or worse. Rather than treating the famine as a natural disaster alone, the report follows the political and economic decisions made far from Kenya that shape who eats and who does not. It closes without resolution, leaving the gap between Durban's negotiating rooms and the drought zone's camps as the story's central, unresolved fact.