U.N. Warns of Famine From Kenyan Drought
<i> Reuters</i>
GENEVA —
Kenya faces the prospect of widespread famine because low rainfall over the last two years has ruined harvests, the United Nations said Wednesday.
The world body launched an appeal for $114 million for the East African country, mainly to import food and to fund a voluntary repatriation program of Somali and other refugees.
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