5 August 2011
The BBC reports:
‘At least 14 people have died in Kenya's north-eastern Turkana region - the first hunger-related Kenyan deaths in the current regional drought.
The UN says more than four million Kenyans are threatened by starvation in the region's worst drought in 60 years.
The BBC's Odhiambo Joseph in Turkana says he visited a village where hundreds of people - most of them old and weak - were queuing for food.
The 14 people who died were Kenyan adults, but children are also severely malnourished.’
Lack of rain in the region for several successive years has lead to severe drought in north-eastern Kenya and in other parts of the Horn of Africa. As the drought continues, the situation deteriorates and more and more people are in need of aid.
Read the full BBC news report.
Pray...
Lord, we pray for rain to fall on the scorched earth of East Africa. We ask for relief for the millions of Kenyans who are suffering due to failed crops and no rainfall and for the provision of food and supplies to reach these remote areas.
Amen