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Red flag raised as 300,000 Kilifi residents face starvation

Mzee Shethi Kombe, 75, sits on a log outside his home. At a distance a group of children are scrambling for wild seeds plucked from a local tree known as mworya. It is the only meal of the day. Mzee Kombe tries to calm the children, but in vain.

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