Starving

Kenya is now making pleas for international food aid after a famine has left 10 million hungry. The government has labeled the famine a national emergency.

“The primary cause is the severe drought we are currently facing, including the failure of the short-rains throughout most of the country and the cumulative effects of four consecutive poor rain seasons in the last two year," said President Kibaki.

Kibaki also laid some blame on the nation's post-election violence this past year, which he said had "severly disrupted the planting season."