NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- U.N. agencies have appealed to the world community to help feed six million people facing malnutrition in drought-stricken east Africa.
The United Nations children's fund UNICEF Wednesday in Nairobi launched an urgent appeal for $14.7 million to help people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, hit by the worst drought in a decade.
The agency said that between 40,000 and 60,000 children and women in Kenya, and as many as 3 out of 10 children in the drought-affected areas of Somalia, were likely to be malnourished.
The U.N. World Food Program has also warned of a humanitarian disaster in Kenya unless donations for emergency food aid were received immediately, the African News Dimension reported. It said food supplies would run out in weeks.
Two years of low rainfall have precipitated the crisis in the area that includes northern Kenya, southern Ethiopia and central and southern Somalia.
