{"id":24225,"date":"2026-01-15T04:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24225\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:17:07","slug":"red-alert-hunger-crisis-looms-as-drought-tightens-grip-on-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24225\/","title":{"rendered":"Red alert: Hunger crisis looms as drought tightens grip on counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CvEIfTlMaKM13m3xB5oCHVIZBwmQyAXChJ93yHXh.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Carcasses of livestock in drought hit Liboi sub-county, Garissa. [File, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<p>Hunger crisis is looming in the country following the near-total failure of the short rains last year, pushing residents in vulnerable counties to the edge.<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Fact\u2011first reporting that puts you at the heart of the newsroom. Subscribe for full access.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va0PRAYGk1Fo4ODHAg0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Follow The Standard<br \/>\n                                    channel<br \/>\n                                    on WhatsApp<\/a><br \/>\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carcasses of livestock in drought hit Liboi sub-county, Garissa. [File, Standard] Hunger crisis is looming in the country&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[14791,12240,80,14790],"class_list":{"0":"post-24225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-asals","9":"tag-deputy-president-kithure-kindiki","10":"tag-kenya","11":"tag-kenyas-hunger-crisiskenya-red-cross-society"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}