NAIROBI, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) — Over one million folks in Kenya are grappling with food woes, desperately needing aid, as revealed by the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) this past Monday.
According to NDMA’s latest insights shared from Nairobi, the predicament stretches across 23 out of the 47 counties, earmarked as either parched or partly parched lands.
The body highlighted a silver lining: kiddos aged six to 59 months facing severe hunger dipped to 760,488 by August, a decline from February’s staggering 847,932.
Conversely, the count of expectant and nursing moms battling severe hunger hit 112,401.
NDMA pointed out that families often trade their crops to juggle other expenses, compromising on nutrition and inadvertently fueling lingering issues like stunted growth.
As reported back in July, a joint observation by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), indicated that a whopping 66.7 million individuals in the Horn of Africa are marching through a food scarcity crisis.
Among these, a hefty 39.1 million arise from six out of IGAD’s eight member nations: Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda. ■
Edited by: Ali Musa
Axadle international–Monitoring
