Gezahegn Kebede Quotes (5 Quotes)

We now have a very small window in which to stop this crisis turning into a catastrophe. The implications of failing to step up the aid effort now will not just be starvation, it could also bring large scale conflict to the region. It's not too late to avert the worst of this, but it soon will be.

The escalating food crisis in Kenya is threatening to plunge the affected region into a level of conflict that hasn't been seen for almost a decade.

Our analysis suggests that in some areas aid is only getting to a third of those who need it. What is crystal clear is that if donors don't rapidly fund the new UN appeal, the situation which is already critical, will get much worse.

Unless there is swift intervention, growing numbers of people will become severely malnourished and the mortality rate will rapidly accelerate.

It's not just the food crisis that is claiming lives in Kenya the knock-on impact of the crisis risks sparking conflict on a scale that Kenya hasn't seen for almost a decade. Unless aid to the affected area is stepped up this month, March could see many more killed.