Kenya: Thousands Face Starvation as Severe Drought Hits Tana Delta

27 September 2016

More than 20,000 people and close to 100,000 head of cattle in Tana River risk starvation following a severe drought that has caused water shortage in the Tana delta.

Seven villages in Assa Location are hardest hit and the residents have been left to rely on only two wells as a humanitarian crisis looms across the county.

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