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Children bearing brunt of ongoing drought

Influential observation experts say the current drought is likely to be the worst in recent years, with more than one a million people in the northern, eastern and coastal counties facing starvation.

These areas received very little rainfall in the last short rains' season of October, November and December 2016, which experts attribute to climate change.

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