Today’s Score – Politics: “Won” People: Many (Dead)

In the all too African game of Politics versus People, politics is winning and people are dying, as the drought worsens, famine and cholera spread across Northern Kenya. Unbelievably, Kenyan and US aid organizations continue to ignore pleas for help.

Tina writes……..I am sad to report the famine is worsening, as predicted, and the most severely impacted are traditional indigenous communities in remote locations, especially pastoralists, who have few communication and transportation resources and little political representation. A horrible March Across Samburu is now taking place by the living dead, people who are starving and now walking long distances desperate for food and water, collapsing and dying. There is a massive famine here, complicated by water shortages and cholera outbreaks. We are trying to get numbers of casualties, which will not be easy, and photos of the people affected. The villages we have been helping —those who lost cattle– are suffering but alive. Several families arrived in Lerata yesterday from a community northwest of Wamba and collapsed in hunger, carrying dead children. This is only going to worsen until rains come.

Three reliable people all independently contacted every aid organization listed in Kenya, over the past 3 months,  and all refused to assist these people—I increased this search to the U.S. based orgs, same result. Some feel the aid distribution is unfairly controlled by those with political agendas.