USAID to provide Kenya with $255 million for drought: administrator

FILE PHOTO: Turkana tribe women and children sit as they wait to be served with relief food during an outreach program by Save the Children organisation in the drought hit Lorengo village of Turkana North in Turkana county Kenya, July 19 2022. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

U.S. development agency USAID will provide Kenya with $255 million in emergency and development assistance to tackle drought, administrator Samantha Power said on Friday.

The Kenyan government says 4.1 million people in the East African nation are food insecure, up from 3.8 million in March this year.

(Reporting by Duncan Miriri; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Alexander Winning)