Nearly 73,000 children in Kenya are severely malnourished and at risk of dying from drought-related hunger unless urgent aid is made immediately available.
The assessments also reveal alarmingly high severe acute malnutrition rates in East Pokot (5.8%), Mandera (5.2%), Samburu (3.8%), and West Pokot (3.2%). These counties have also witnessed extreme deterioration in nutrition and food security
Life-threatening situation
Barely surviving on one meal a day
As experienced in neighbouring Somalia, the risk is that once the high rates of malnutrition combine with disease outbreaks prompted by a lack of clean water, large numbers of young children will start to die from hunger and related complications, like diarrhoea.
