For 30 years, leaders have promised climate action. The Earth has waited in vain.

The last of the evening light is fading over this arid northern county when Maria Lokito bends down to check the small plastic rain bucket outside her mud-walled hut. The bucket is empty. It has been empty for weeks.

“When the rain comes, we plant,” she says quietly, brushing the red dust from her palms. “But the rains have become strangers now. We pray, we wait and sometimes, they never come.”

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