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...feeding many others. As if matters could not get any worse, the country is on the brink of a severe drought. "The situation is clearly getting worse, and with predictions for the coming rainy season not being positive, we are looking at a major crisis," said Marcus Prior, the Nairobi-based spokesman for the World Food Programme. "We're doing everything we can to make sure we have the capacity to respond to significantly more numbers than we're already targeting...
When there's a food emergency in the world, the World Food Program (WFP) is the agency called in to handle it, feeding everyone from flood victims after the 2004 tsunami to schoolchildren in Nairobi slums...
However, in the end, when they could not entirely agree, Kibaki and Odinga decided to create more ministries, expanding the number from 34 to 42. Some seemed questionable, There is not only a ministry for development, but now a ministry for Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands. Nairobi, which already has its own city government, will get a new federal ministry, too. The country will also get a ministry for "Planning and Vision 2030," whose tasks are so far undefined...
...spite of the hoopla over the formation of the new government, many observers remain skeptical about its prospects. A senior Western diplomat in Nairobi was blunt: "Kenyans welcomed the apparent agreement, though their media ridiculed the prospect of a Cabinet of 40 thieves. We're still keen to work with a genuine power-sharing government, but we'll watch closely how efficiently and transparently it uses resources." Kenyans will be watching whether or not Odinga and Kibaki will actually share power. They remember 2005, when Kibaki dismissed many members of his Cabinet - including Odinga - because it was riven by internal...
...NAIROBI, KENYA Police and opposition-party supporters clash in streets...