Charity: 'Kenya facing health emergency'

Kenya will face a health emergency within days if the wave of political violence in the east African state is not halted, a UK-based charity warned today.

With an estimated 180,000 people forced from their homes and many more too scared to venture outside, supplies of food and clean water are running “dangerously low”, sparking fears of health risks from diarrhoea, infection and dehydration, said medical aid charity Merlin.