‘Catastrophe’ looms

WORLD Food Programme (WFP) chief James Morris said on Saturday that international donors must act to avert a catastrophe in Kenya, where some 3,5 million people face starvation due to a devastating drought.

Morris spoke as he toured northern Kenya, where at least 40 people have died amid food shortages which are threatening at least 11 million people across the Horn of Africa. “This is as bad as it gets.The consequences are absolutely catastrophic, there is just no alternative if lives are going to be saved, the world has to provide food,” Morris said in El Wak, a dusty outpost about 820 km northeast of Nairobi on the Somali border.The WFP chief pledged to mobilise funds and deliver food in the region in the coming week.- Nampa-AFP”This is as bad as it gets.The consequences are absolutely catastrophic, there is just no alternative if lives are going to be saved, the world has to provide food,” Morris said in El Wak, a dusty outpost about 820 km northeast of Nairobi on the Somali border.The WFP chief pledged to mobilise funds and deliver food in the region in the coming week.- Nampa-AFP