EDITORIAL: Leaders are fighting and the rains are failing

Kenyan and Red Cross officials distribute food aid to a villager at Ongata Naado Primary School in Narok County on April 10, 2019. PHOTO | GEORGE SAYAGIE | NMG

As political tensions heated the minds of many African leaders in the first quarter of the year, East Africa and the Greater Horn of Africa slid into a mounting food crisis.

The food stocks have been shrinking and the forecasts so far are a cause for concern.