Author: By Victoria Sabula

Audio By Vocalize East Africa is heading into a food crisis that will not resolve in one season. Grain prices are climbing across the region. Kenya’s North Rift, the source of more than 60 per cent of the country’s maize, has recorded widespread crop failure. Uganda is running emergency food deliveries into Karamoja, where more than a million acres of crops have been lost. Forecasters now put the odds of a very strong El NiƱo forming between October and December at 81 per cent, with conditions likely to persist into 2027. None of this should surprise anyone working in food…

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