Kenya: UN seeks $244 million to boost food aid to vulnerable Kenyans

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed for $244 million to scale up its operation in Kenya, where high food prices and drought have left 3.5 million people in need of aid. The Kenyan Government declared a national disaster in January following the failure of rains in some parts of the country. Subsistence farmers in south-eastern and coastal areas were hardest hit and have experienced almost total crop loss.