Four million starving Kenyans in urgent need, food report shows

Women wait in a queue for a water bowser at Nasinyono village in Turkana West Sub County. [File, Standard]

The number of people in need of urgent food assistance has increased to 4.1 million, up from 3.5 million in February.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification analysis further estimates that 942,000 children aged below five years are acutely malnourished in 12 arid and semi-arid counties.