The combination of rising food prices and food shortages are creating a desperate situation in Kenya.
Vital food production was destroyed when many farms were ransacked in violence after Kenya's election period, and the price of staples, like maize, has risen as much as 70 per cent.
Ama Boateng reports.
Nyasa Times "Minister of Women and Child Development Kate Kainja-Kaluluma has passed away in United Kingdom. “Indeed Hon Kate Kainja Kaluluma has died,” confirmed family friends in London. The 57-year-old minister was admitted to a North England hospital – York Hospital. Diplomatic sources at Malawi High Commission in London have said arrangements are being made to send her remains to Malawi. Kainja who was Dedza South West Constituency parliamentarian flew to United Kingdom for medical attention after a long-illness. She is survived by a husband, Emanuel Kaluluma and three children."