This is just insanity! The situation is so bad over there. It's a very sad reality! The following article explains how severe the food shortage is and how many have been displaced and killed.
UN warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in post-election Kenya
7 January 2008 – United Nations officials warned today that the humanitarian situation in Kenya, where post-election violence has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people, is getting worse with water, sanitation and shelter among the most pressing needs.
The UN estimates that some 250,000 Kenyans have been displaced and 350 reportedly killed by the violence which erupted after President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner in the recent election.
The UN Country Team in Kenya is working with the Kenya Red Cross Society and a number of national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as faith-based groups, to provide immediate humanitarian assistance.
As tensions in the capital and elsewhere have eased, UN agencies and their partners have stepped up their efforts to deliver much-needed supplies, including food, water, mosquito nets, blankets, shelter material and medicine, to those in need.
“Although the overall security situation in the country may have improved over the past couple of days, the humanitarian crisis is deepening,” OCHA’s Jens Laerke told reporters in Nairobi.
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