Drought drives rising hunger across east Africa.

More than 2 million people in Kenya face hunger as drought kills livestock and dries up pasture in the country’s northeast. Four straight failed rainy seasons have left parts of the Horn of Africa at their driest since 1981, with Mandera County now at an “alarm” level due to water shortages and child wasting. The crisis stretches into Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda, where families flee worsening conditions and many displaced people survive on one meal a day. Experts link the deepening hardship to climate change, which is intensifying droughts and storms across a region heavily dependent on rain‑fed agriculture.

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