The United Nations looks to donors for USD150 million in new funding to help people affected by violence and those facing drought in Kenya. The money will finance projects of 37 intenational and national non-governmental organizations and 13 U.N. agencies. The total requirement has now reached USD192 million, to account the initial flash appeal that the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs made in January amid a political crisis resulting from the disputed presidential elections. The warring sides entered a power-sharing deal but the two reached a stalemate on forming a unity government. “There are legitimate fears that if the impasse is not speedily resolved, Kenya will slide back to the kind of violence unleashed in the wake of the disputed presidential elections,” according to an editorial in the local Daily Nation newspaper.
Source: UN seeks further 150 million dollars in Kenya aid (AFP)