The rain has come back to Kenya, but many are still hun­gry. Mete­o­rol­o­gists in Kenya say that crops will not fail this year, as the rain sea­son that has just begun has pro­vided enough water.

How­ever, because of pre­vi­ous dry sea­sons, mil­lions of peo­ple are still hun­gry in the region. Aid offi­cials from the UN’ s World Food Pro­gramme say they will con­tinue to pro­vide food to the region.

From this Asso­ci­ated Press arti­cle hosted at Google, we learn more on what could be the end of the drought.

Spokesman Ayub Shaka said Mon­day that drought-stricken areas received enough pre­cip­i­ta­tion last week to indi­cate that this season’s rain­fall will not fail. The short rain­fall sea­son usu­ally lasts from mid-October to Decem­ber and the long rains from the begin­ning of March to the end of May.

Rain has been sparse for the last four sea­sons. The drought has led to crop fail­ure, deaths of herd ani­mals and wide­spread hunger.

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