In Kenya, the World Food Programme is warning over two million people are in need of food aid to overcome a drought caused by two failed rainy seasons. President Mwai Kibaki recently declared food shortages in the arid north and some coastal areas a national disaster.

• The World Food Programme’s Peter Smerdon : “Food and money is needed now if we are going to tackle this problem and people will survive. If we do not receive more food donations, it’s going to be very miserable and very difficult for a lot of people in Kenya and elsewhere and there will be loss of life.”