{"id":24191,"date":"2021-09-20T16:46:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T08:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/?p=24191"},"modified":"2021-09-23T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T08:56:28","slug":"drought-puts-kenyans-at-risk-of-starvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/drought-puts-kenyans-at-risk-of-starvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Puts Kenyans at Risk of Starvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>KENYA, <\/strong>September 20, 2021 &#8211; An estimated 2.1 Kenyans are in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) level 3 due to drought conditions that have been worsening.<\/p>\n<p>The figure shows a 70 percent increase since early February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Malnutrition rates were also reported high.<\/p>\n<p>Around 70 percent of water pans in Kenya have dried up while water levels in the well have significantly declined.<\/p>\n<p>According to Islamic Relief Kenya, the livestock conditions are poor due to a lack of food resources. The livestock\u2019s weight began to decrease which impacted the selling price.<\/p>\n<p>This situation makes herders unable to buy food and other necessities.<\/p>\n<p>The affected people are in urgent need of food, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and livestock support.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1632387306342-240f2787-7102-7&#8243; include=&#8221;24189,24187,24185,24183,24181,24179,24175&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]KENYA, September 20, 2021 &#8211; An estimated 2.1 Kenyans are in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) level 3 due to drought conditions that have been worsening. The figure shows a 70 percent increase since early February 2021. Malnutrition rates were also reported high. Around 70 percent of water pans in Kenya have dried up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,57,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news","category-worldwide","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24192,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24191\/revisions\/24192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}