UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is providing food for 100,000 people in Kenya which is suffering from an escalating post presidential election violence, UN Spokesperson Michele Montas said Thursday.
Children displaced by post election violence prepare food near Sacred Heart Cathedral in Eldoret, Western Kenya, January 3, 2008. [Agencies] |
Montas told reporters at the UN Headquarters in New York that the World Food Program is providing enough legumes and oil for 100, 000 people for one month, initially in the Rift Valley.
She noted that according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations and the Kenyan Red Cross Society estimate that at least 100,000 people require immediate humanitarian assistance in the northern Rift Valley alone.
Many of them are stranded without food, shelter, water, fuel, essential medicines or protection, Montas added.
The spokesperson said it is unclear how many Kenyans have crossed the border into Uganda, but the number appears to be relatively small, adding that a joint mission between the organization and the government of Uganda is visiting the area to determine the number of arrivals and their needs.
