KENYANS living in marginal areas are struggling with a drought currently ravaging some parts of the country, according to a USaid monthly publication. “If the long rains are poor this year, there will be substantial impoverishment of households in the marginal agricultural districts of the country,” it says. Kenya Vulnerability Update also predicts that even in the Lake Victoria region, families “will be under considerable food stress in the event of poor long rains.” Meanwhile, many of the Kxoe San people in the West Caprivi of Namibia are still in need of food relief especially the elderly and disabled people who cannot capitalise on good rains which have fallen in the area in recent months.