60,000 children face starving to death in drought-hit Kenya

The UN has described it as potentially the world’s worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War but the rest of the world seems unaware of how bad things are, writes Paul Healy

Over the next few weeks, 60,000 children in the north of Kenya may starve to death. This is the stark reality of a crisis that has inexplicably flown under the radar in Ireland and around the world.

Drought has led to starvation across huge areas of east Africa. The number of people affected is truly frightening: approximately 25 million people reliant on food aid across four countries. The United Nations has described it as potentially the world’s worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War.