Sitting on thin foam mattresses sprawled across a crude cement floor in drought-stricken northern Kenya, dozens of mothers nurse emaciated babies as flies hover around mosquito netting. The odours of medicine and sweat mixed with the stench of disease hang in the foetid air under the iron roof of this hospital annex.
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/ 27 December 2005
At least 20 people have died from hunger and related illness in drought-hit northern Kenya this month, local officials said on Tuesday as President Mwai Kibaki prepared to inspect relief operations in the region. There has been a national outcry over what local media have dubbed the ”Christmas famine”.