“I am not sick,” she says, through an interpreter, soon after the Nation team investigating the hunger pangs of Turkana feeds her. Lemuu is not sick, but she wishes she was, for the hunger, like a terminal disease, is killing her slowly. KEEP QUIETAnd now the reality has set in, with hunger-related deaths, which the Nation could not independently confirm, already reported in Baringo and Turkana counties. The Turkana County government has indicated that more than 800,000 residents are battling hunger and risk starvation, if no urgent measures are put in place to save them. The National Drought Management Authority and the Kenya Meteorological Departments have always issued early drought warnings, which are either disregarded or scarcely acted upon.

Source: Daily Nation March 18, 2019 08:01 UTC