Figures from the Kenya Food Security Steering Group suggest that the country's acutely food insecure population increased from 850,000 to 1.3 million between August 2013 and February 2014, with the most vulnerable households in north- eastern pastoral areas. The Famine Early Warning Systems Network estimates that more than 34% of children under five are at risk of malnutrition in parts of Turkana, up from a five-year average of 21%. The drought that afflicted east Africa three years ago affected some 13m people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, and claimed as many as 100,000 According to figures compiled by the UK's Department for International Development, more than half of those who died were children under age of five. A report published by Save the Children and Oxfam claimed that although drought sparked the east Africa crisis, human factors enabled it to become a disaster. It concluded: "A culture of risk aversion caused a six-month delay in the large-scale aid effort because humanitarian agencies and national governments were too slow to scale up their response to the crisis, and many donors wanted proof of a humanitarian catastrophe before acting to prevent