More 250,000 Garissa residents facing starvation
The drought is a result of the county’s failure to receive the expected short rain in March and April of this year.
Residents are now pleading with the government to intervene and help them out of their predicament, as they go days without water for both human and animal consumption and only have fuel water trucks provided by the county government on occasion.
According to the Garissa County Steering Committee, which conducted a drought situation survey across the county, over 350,000 livestock and 800,000 goats have begun to lose body weight.
Cherutich also stated that children under the age of five are at risk of malnutrition due to a lack of adequate food, but the health ministry is providing emergency assistance in this regard.
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