NAIROBI - Kenya, recovering from months of political violence, faces a food shortage and the current grain reserve might last only until August.
NAIROBI - Kenya, recovering from months of political violence, faces a food shortage and the current grain reserve might last only until August.
The Daily Nation said tribal fighting sparked by the disputed December 27 presidential elections had depopulated the countryside, with farmland left fallow during the planting season.
It spoke of "insecurity in Kenya's breadbasket - the vast area in Western Province and North Rift where maize and other grains like wheat do well", adding that rioters had torched granaries while gangs evicted farmers from their land. - Sapa-AFP
Kenya's food woes
NAIROBI - Kenya, recovering from months of political violence, faces a food shortage and the current grain reserve might last only until August.
NAIROBI - Kenya, recovering from months of political violence, faces a food shortage and the current grain reserve might last only until August.
The Daily Nation said tribal fighting sparked by the disputed December 27 presidential elections had depopulated the countryside, with farmland left fallow during the planting season.
It spoke of "insecurity in Kenya's breadbasket - the vast area in Western Province and North Rift where maize and other grains like wheat do well", adding that rioters had torched granaries while gangs evicted farmers from their land. - Sapa-AFP
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