A latest report shows that about two million Kenyans are facing food crisis, up from the 1.6 deemed to be facing the same danger in May.

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According to the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA), many households in arid and semi-arid parts if the nation are facing acute food shortage due to drought.

In the report released on Wednesday, the numbers are expected to officially hit 2 million later this month, at a time when the nation is experiencing maize shortage.

“It is estimated that 1.6 million people are in crisis and the number is expected to reach over 2 million by July 2019,” reads the report as was seen by the Standard.

According to the NDMA, the worst hit counties include Turkana, Samburu, Isiolo, Marsabit and Tana River.

The authority on Wednesday said that it has dispatched offices to collect data to enable the government take initiate necessary emergency actions in a bid to contain the situation.

"More households now face stressed acute food insecurity levels. In the pastoral north-west more households are in both crisis and emergency food insecurity phase," adds the report.

Some of the named contributing causes include low rainfall, temporal and uneven rain supply, at a time when some maize millers have already hiked prices to Sh120 per a 2kg bag.

This is from the initial Sh90.