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Kenya Drought a “Humanitarian Catastrophe” The Kenya food
situation continues to deteriorate, with the five year drought
creating the worst situation in the region for four decades, says
the United Nations. Posted: Monday, March 6 , 2006, 8:36
(UK) The Kenya food situation has
deteriorated further as the five year drought continues to create
the worst situation in the region for four decades, the United
Nations says.

British charity Christian Aid has echoed fears of starvation, saying the risk has
spread across much of the Horn of Africa.

Dominic Nutt, the charity’s emergencies specialist, said: “This is a crisis on the
verge of becoming a catastrophe.

“There are dead cattle everywhere and people have sold everything they have to buy
food.

“These are the last few weeks that many people are going to be able to survive
without help.”

Head of the UN World Food Programme James Morris said 11 million are at risk across
the Horn of Africa.

The world has not appreciated in the last 60 days how serious this
situation is… we are now in a crisis. We are in a life-saving
mode. Head of the UN World Food Programme, James Morris “The
world has not appreciated in the last 60 days how serious this
situation is… we are now in a crisis. We are in a life-saving
mode,” he said.

He said unless a donation shortfall of $189m (£107m) was met soon, many deaths from
malnutrition would inevitably follow.

UN stocks of maize and rice would only last to the end of next month and the stocks
of beans and vegetable oil were far worse, Morris said.

The government of Kenya has declared the famine affecting numerous parts of the
country a ‘national disaster’ and has called for national and international efforts
to raise much needed aid to provide food for about 3.5 million people, almost 10
percent of the population, over the next six months, according to Action by Churches
Together (ACT) International.

Keith Wright of Food for the Hungry International’s (FHI) says, “It’s accelerating
as people lose more and more livestock. That’s really what they rely on for food,
and as they die they really run out of resources quickly when that happens. So, what
we’re seeing, unfortunately, the situation getting worse every day,” says Wright.

Meanwhile, the situation in Somalia is equally alarming, Morris said. He urged rival
militias in the country “to set aside their differences and guarantee safe passage
[of food aid] to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe”.