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Horn of Africa facing fresh food shortage
Thursday May 13 2021
A family trudges back home on the borders of Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan in 2019, after escaping drought. PHOTO | FILE
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The Horn of Africa region is staring at food shortages after the delayed start of the long rains in some countries and below-average rainfall in others.
The UN and the government of Somalia have jointly declared drought in the country after officials determined that 80 percent of Somalia had received little rainfall. Usually, much of the Horn considers March to May as a planting season.
However, projections by the Famine Early Warnings Systems Network and the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies indicate that the situation is likely to get worse as we get into May down to September if the weather situation does not change.
OPINION
Workers prepare foodstuff for beneficiaries at a food distribution center supported by the World Food Program in Sanaa, Yemen June 3, 2020. [Reuters, Khaled Abdullah]
As the country engages all gears towards the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic, one critical pillar of human survival needs to remain clear in our sight – food security.
This, for any nation, is a situation that brings immense pride to a people and which can be achieved through hard work.
Kenya, as is the rest of the world, is working towards attainment of the Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
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EDITORIAL
Water is scarce in Telesgaye and Sobare in Sericho, Illeret, Marsabit County. [Courtesy]
Let us all join hands and help residents of Marsabit to put food, water on their table
The situation in Marsabit is a sad one and needs urgent attention. While the rest of the country grapples with coronavirus pandemic, residents of the county are struggling with the ravages of drought and with it, starvation and hunger for more than 100,000 people.
And they are not the only ones. The same could befall 1.4 million people in the larger northern Kenya, according to the Kenya Food Security Steering Group (KFSSG). With drought comes intercommunity wars as drought-ravaged villagers invade neighbouring areas for pasture, bringing about conflicts.
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