Kenya is a country synomous to hunger 57 years after independence
Kenya is a country synomous to hunger 57 years after independence
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Report reveals 1.5million Kenyans are facing hunger as locusts, Covid bites
By ALLAN MUNGAI | February 25th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Global Hunger Report says 23 per cent of the population in Kenya is under nourished?. [Courtesy]
Some 1.5 million Kenyans are facing an acute food shortage that has been exacerbated by Covid-19, climate change and locust invasion, a new report says.
The Global Hunger Report gives Kenya a score of 23.7, which lists it among 40 countries with a serious risk of hunger. The scores range between 0-100, with countries with lower figures having low levels of hunger.
By that score, Kenya, and much of the world is behind the aspiration to eradicate hunger by 2030, said Kelvin Shingles, the Country Director of Welthungerhilfe (WHH), the organisation that produces the annual reports.
As per the 2020 Global Hunger Index, 2020, Kenya is ranked 84th out of 107, behind Algeria, Egypt, South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Gambia, Gabon, Namibia, and Cameroon that have moderate levels of hunger while Eswatini, Mali, Malawi, Botswana, and Benin have a serious level of hunger but better scores than Kenya.In Africa, only Algeria is listed as having a low level of hunger.
The organisation gives a score based on data on child mortality, child under nutrition, and inadequate food supply to assess progress and setbacks in combating hunger.
The lesser the score, the lower the hunger levels are in the country. At 23.7, Kenya’s level of hunger score is above the global average of 18.2.
Child mortality looks at the percentage of children who die before the age of five, while under nutrition figures show the percentage of children under five who suffer from wasting or low weight for height and percentage of children under five who suffer from stunting or low height for age.
The hunger level in the country increased in 2020 from 23.2 in 2019, which the report attributes to conspiratorial factors of Covid-19 and locust invasion.
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In Kenya, the report states that 23 per cent of the population is under nourished. The figure has reduced from 3.4 in the past two decades.
According to the report launched in Nairobi yesterday, child mortality rate is decreasing and is now at 4.1 per cent.
Globally, almost half of the children who die before their fifth birthday are affected by malnutrition, Shingles said.
The report shows that Kitui and West Pokot counties have high pockets of children who are stunted.
Some 31.3 per cent of children under five years in Kenya are stunted, according to the Global Hunger Index.
Further, the report says chronic child under nutrition - which develops slowly over an extended period of time - is pronounced in Kenya.
More than 50 countries are facing severe hunger. Hunger is at alarming levels in 11 countries while 40 countries, Kenya included, have serious levels of hunger.
“The outlook was bad even before Covid-19 but now we have a triple threat in Kenya, including the locust outbreak, the increasing frequency of crisis due to climate change,” Shingles said.
WHH says increasing support for smallholder farmers to become more sustainable, improving access to agricultural inputs and extension services, strengthening local and regional markets will boost food security.
Agriculture and Food Crops Principal Secretary Hamadi Boga and representatives of food security lobby groups were at the launch of the report.
Report reveals 1.5million Kenyans are facing hunger as locusts, Covid bites
Some 31.3 per cent of children under five years in Kenya are stunted, according to the Global Hunger Index.
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CALL FOR HELP
Red Cross appeals for Sh800 million to help starving Kenyans
Kenya facing two natural disasters that essentially should be mutually exclusive – drought in one region and flooding in the other
In Summary
• The society has already bought food for affected families but is unable to raise the entire amount needed.
• Dr Asha Mohammed said theirs is a direct response to the appeal made by the National Government through Spokesman Cyrus Oguna on April 1.
HELP AT HAND: Kenya Red Cross Society secretary general Asha Mohammed when she flagged off foodstuff to vulnerable families hit by drought in Marsabit at the organisation's headquarters in South C, Nairobi, on April 16, 2021
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Kenya Red Cross has appealed for Sh800 million to help more than 157,000 people facing hunger and those displaced by floods.
The society’s secretary General Asha Mohammed said while some parts of Kenya are being washed by floods, in arid areas thousands of people still have nothing to eat.
“What this means is that we are dealing with two natural disasters that essentially should be mutually exclusive—drought in one region and flooding in the other,” she told journalists in Nairobi on Friday.
The Kenya Meteorological Department says while western, Rift Valley, Coast and central Kenya will have enhanced rains this season, northern Kenya will have depressed rains.
Dr Mohammed said from the appeal, Sh483 million will go to flood victims while Sh315 million will buy food for drought victims.
The emergency situation is likely to continue until September, or end of the year depending on response.
She said the Sh800 million was based on projections made jointly by Red Cross, relief agencies and county governments in affected areas.
Dr Mohammed said the projections show between 15,000 to 30,000 families around Lake Victoria will be displaced by the ongoing heavy rains and will need shelter, food, clean water and basic health.
She said they are targeting 37,000 drought-hit people in Marsabit and 35,000 in Tana River with relief food.
“We are also expecting to reach 85,000 people in Mandera, Wajir and Turkana in the next phase of distribution,” she said.
The society will also transfer cash assistance of Sh5,400 per month for three months to each of 15,000 families in Mandera, Marsabit, Turkana, Wajir, Isiolo, Samburu and Garissa counties.
“Evidence has shown that cash assistance programmes can play a critical role in meeting immediate needs and enhancing economic recovery while promoting dignity,” she said.
Mohammed said theirs is a direct response to the appeal made by the National Government through Spokesman Cyrus Oguna on April 1.
Oguna said said 1.4 million Kenyans are threatened by drought and the situation may worsen.
“With the performance of the 2021 long-rains season forecasted to be poor, the situation is likely to dip a little, and the number of those in need of humanitarian support likely to increase towards August 2021,” he said.
Oguna said county governments, in collaboration with the national government, are distributing water to households in Turkana, Mandera, Garissa and Wajir counties.
“Other interventions include the provision of relief food in Turkana county by the county government, cash transfer under the Hunger Safety Net Program, which is currently in Phase 3. Every household receives Sh2,700 every two months, and targets over 101,800 households in the counties of Turkana, Mandera and Marsabit,” he said, adding that the government spends about Sh2 billion on the programme every year.
He said plans are underway to incorporate into the programme the counties of Wajir, Isiolo, Tana River, Garissa and Samburu.
Red Cross appeals for Sh800 million to help starving Kenyans
Kenya facing two natural disasters – drought in one region and flooding in the other
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Red Cross appeals for Sh800 million to help starving Kenyans
Kenya facing two natural disasters – drought in one region and flooding in the other
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Drought alert in ten counties across Kenya
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Summary
- Kenya is warning of a looming drought in 10 counties that have been battling desert locusts in the past one year.
- Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa issued a drought alert in Kilifi, Garissa, Isiolo, Mandera, Samburu, Tana River, Wajir, Lamu, Marsabit and Turkana counties.
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Kenya is warning of a looming drought in 10 counties that have been battling desert locusts in the past one year.
Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa issued a drought alert in Kilifi, Garissa, Isiolo, Mandera, Samburu, Tana River, Wajir, Lamu, Marsabit and Turkana counties.
“This calls for anticipatory action will go a long way in building the resilience of the communities in the affected counties,” he said.
“The onset of the long rains was expected from mid to late March in most areas through June in Western, Upper Rift Valley and Coastal regions; but cessation was observed in the other areas by end of May,” said Lawrence Omuhaka, Chief Administrative Secretary in Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives.
Mr Omuhaka chaired the EAC Sectoral Council on Agriculture in Arusha on behalf of the Agriculture Cabinet Secretary, Peter Munya.
Kenya’s drought response plan requires Ksh9.4 billion for the July-November period, Ksh5.8 billion for food and safety net support and Ksh3.6 billion for non-food interventions.
According to a consolidated regional June 2021 report by the East African Community titled “Food Security Status Report,” food security in the region had remained stable in the past one and-a-half years, despite challenges of volatile food prices, desert locust impacts, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
The long rains crop production forecast for 2021 in Kenya was generally depressed for most areas.
Meanwhile, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is urging continued surveillance to control the desert locusts that are now in Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen.
“Effective survey and control operations in northern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia are key in reducing breeding that will occur in northeast Ethiopia from now until September,” warns FAO in its July 2021 report on desert locusts.
While Kenya may be off the hook, seasonal rains have commenced in Afar in Tigray areas of Ethiopia and above normal rainfall are expected during the next four weeks that will allow one generation of breeding between now and September.
“The swarms will complete maturation and lay eggs that should begin to hatch in early August, giving rise to hopper bands, which could eventually lead to the formation of new immature swarms from late September onwards,” the report says.
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Now 58 years after independence adui njaa bado yupo!!!
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wacha Nikuulize we"MyTake"Flooding zikifanyika Tanzania utamlaumu Nani,Uku Kenya kiangazi Ni kawaida Sababu Kenya Ni 3/4Desert,Na Unaposema eti after 58yrs unafikirianga kivipi,sio serikali imekosea watu,Ni Climate banaah🤔Drought alert in ten counties across Kenya
Summary
- Kenya is warning of a looming drought in 10 counties that have been battling desert locusts in the past one year.
- Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa issued a drought alert in Kilifi, Garissa, Isiolo, Mandera, Samburu, Tana River, Wajir, Lamu, Marsabit and Turkana counties.
By LUKE ANAMI
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Kenya is warning of a looming drought in 10 counties that have been battling desert locusts in the past one year.
Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa issued a drought alert in Kilifi, Garissa, Isiolo, Mandera, Samburu, Tana River, Wajir, Lamu, Marsabit and Turkana counties.
“This calls for anticipatory action will go a long way in building the resilience of the communities in the affected counties,” he said.
“The onset of the long rains was expected from mid to late March in most areas through June in Western, Upper Rift Valley and Coastal regions; but cessation was observed in the other areas by end of May,” said Lawrence Omuhaka, Chief Administrative Secretary in Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives.
Mr Omuhaka chaired the EAC Sectoral Council on Agriculture in Arusha on behalf of the Agriculture Cabinet Secretary, Peter Munya.
Kenya’s drought response plan requires Ksh9.4 billion for the July-November period, Ksh5.8 billion for food and safety net support and Ksh3.6 billion for non-food interventions.
According to a consolidated regional June 2021 report by the East African Community titled “Food Security Status Report,” food security in the region had remained stable in the past one and-a-half years, despite challenges of volatile food prices, desert locust impacts, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
The long rains crop production forecast for 2021 in Kenya was generally depressed for most areas.
Meanwhile, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is urging continued surveillance to control the desert locusts that are now in Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen.
“Effective survey and control operations in northern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia are key in reducing breeding that will occur in northeast Ethiopia from now until September,” warns FAO in its July 2021 report on desert locusts.
While Kenya may be off the hook, seasonal rains have commenced in Afar in Tigray areas of Ethiopia and above normal rainfall are expected during the next four weeks that will allow one generation of breeding between now and September.
“The swarms will complete maturation and lay eggs that should begin to hatch in early August, giving rise to hopper bands, which could eventually lead to the formation of new immature swarms from late September onwards,” the report says.
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Now 58 years after independence adui njaa bado yupo!!!
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wako na akili fupi kwa kila kitu.,
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kwasababu hatuna mahali pakubwa ambapo panaweza limwa kwasababu ya desert conditions,huko Arable tunapandaga mimea ambayo italeta pesa zaidi ili tuweze kuimport Chakula kutoka inje,unajua ukiwa huna kitu na unakitaka,Huwezi kulia,unafaa ufanye bidii kwa ujanja mpaka ukipate👌Uku Kenya we plant cash crops Ndio Sababu Zina pesa Sana,ili tuweze kununua Chakula kwa wingi na hio pesa tuliopata na iliobakia tunawekanga mfukoni🙈Nani mjanja apo🔥🔥
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they don't think out of the box,hio Ndio Shida ya ujamaa
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Umepigia mbuzi guitar hapa 😂 😂 😂
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Njaa mwana malevya!
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Anataka serikali itengeneze mvua. 🤣 🤣
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🙈😂😂😂
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Halafu utawasikia hawa nyang'au wakitamba oh gdp sijui nini, upuuzi mtpu.
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Will never cease.
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