A drought is effect­ing 1 mil­lion Kenyans and the U.N.‘s World Food Pro­gramme says they are not get­ting the food they need to sur­vive. The WFP called on emer­gency dona­tions of food aid to Kenya, who is expe­ri­enc­ing their worst drought since 2000.

From this Asso­ci­ated Press arti­cle that we found at Google News, Tom Odula writes more about the emer­gency situation.

More than 1 mil­lion Kenyans affected by a pro­longed drought are not get­ting the food aid they des­per­ately need, the U.N.‘s World Food Pro­gram said Tuesday.

The agency already is pro­vid­ing emer­gency food aid to some 2.5 mil­lion peo­ple in this East African nation, but another 1.3 mil­lion still need help, said Gabrielle Menezes, a spokes­woman for WFP.
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The areas hard­est hit by the drought are the semi­arid southeastern regions and parts of cen­tral Kenya.

Those areas gen­er­ally have only one har­vest a year of maize — Kenya’s sta­ple — usu­ally after autumn rain­fall called the short rains. But the rains have largely failed this year

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