In Kenya, the food security crisis is deepening in many areas of the country due to a near-total crop failure as a result of the drought. 3.5 million people (1.7 million of whom are children) are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
The influx of Somali refugees into the Dadaab camps in Kenya is continuing with the total population of the camps standing at over 400,000. Women and children represent 80% of the population.
With nearly half the children who make it to the camps from southern Somalia malnourished and reports of children dying along the way or just as they arrive at the camps, UNICEF is supporting therapeutic feeding centres at the Liboi border.
UNICEF has also launched an immunisation campaign aimed at protecting children in communities around the Dadaab refugee camps. So far over 60,000 children have been immunised against measles as well as received vitamin A and de-worming.
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