{"id":4278,"date":"2019-08-01T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T07:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"drought-threatens-census-in-north-eastern-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/01\/drought-threatens-census-in-north-eastern-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Threatens Census In North Eastern Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By The Standard Digital<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Eastern MPs have warned that the ongoing\ndrought in the region may force their constituents to skip the forthcoming\npopulation census as locals begin migrating to neighboring counties for water\nand pastures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Led by National Assembly Majority Leader and\nGarissa Town MP Aden Duale, the MPs appealed for urgent food and water supplies\namid reports that at least two million people face starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duale said there was a serious food, water and\npasture shortage in the region after April-May long rains failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe ask the national and county governments,\nand international donors to come to the aid of the people affected by the\ndrought,\u201d said Duale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said Kenya National Bureau of Statistics\nshould consider allocating more time for the census in the region due to the\nmigration nature of the pastoral communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs we speak today, some of our people have\ncrossed to Somalia, Ethiopia, and South Sudan in search of pasture and water.\nKNBS must tell us what they are doing to address the unique situation in\nnorthern Kenya while conducting the census exercise,\u201d said Duale.\n\nThe\nappeal comes at the backdrop of a report by a state agency that the number of\npeople facing food shortage was likely to hit two million this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001335722\/drought-threatens-census-in-north-eastern-as-locals-cross-borders\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Standard Digital North Eastern MPs have warned that the ongoing drought in the region may force their constituents to skip the forthcoming population census as locals begin migrating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}