One in every three Kenyans is in danger of starvation in Kenya after harvests failed because of drought and also the post-election violence, which affected the country’s bread basket districts in Western, Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces.
The government declared a national emergency and will lift the import duty on maize until the next major harvest. [...]

January 10th, 2008 | Tags: alfred mutua, hunger, kenyan government, peter smerdon, starvation in kenya, state of emergency, u.n.'s world food program, wfp | Category: Ecology & Outdoors, Life and Society | Leave a comment