Declare hunger in northern Kenya a national disaster
Echakan Amaja Namoni, 76, eats wild doum palm fruit (Hyphaene thebaica) outside tukul shelter in Loperot village near Lokichar in Turkana County n February 16, 2026. The county has been hit by severe drought.
Disaster • The hunger and starvation ravaging Kenyans in the arid and semi-arid region should be declared a national disaster, says Jim Webo. “The media images of carcasses and emaciated livestock should provoke an urgent reaction from the leaders, who are more obsessed with hurling insults at their opponents, dishing out money, and ferrying people to their rallies. Politicians can be ridiculously shameless!”
