Food security experts say Kenya's early warning system has mitigated the impact of disasters – in turn minimising the likelihood of famine.

The governments of Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, South Sudan and Uganda, and three United Nations agencies, launched the Groundwater Access Facility on M...

The agencies have called on the international community to help ramp up a timely emergency response to support victims of drought in the region.

The highest probabilities are for Central and Western Kenya and the border areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.