JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: In Africa, there is an acute shortage of water. International relief groups are urging donors to support Kenya's appeal for emergency food aid, as that country confronts its worst drought in decades. More from CNN's Catherine Bond in Nairobi.</s>CATHERINE BOND, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): More than three million Kenyans now face starvation, according to relief agencies. Among the worst affected: Somali-speaking Nomads, their livestock weak or dying.</s>UBURU KENYATTA, CHMN., NATL. DISASTER CMTE.: We travel along the road, dead carcasses along the way, and that's just what we're seeing along the roadside. We don't really know what is going on up in the interiors.</s>BOND: The source now of dispute: water is getting harder and harder to find. Like other hit by Kenya's drought, most Nomads here depend on animals for milk, meat and money. But in the north and east of Kenya, agencies say crops have failed and hundreds of thousands of animals could die. The coordination of relief food, say the agencies, is efficient, a new system in place, each community choosing who needs aid and who doesn't. What's missing is the food itself.</s>KENYATTA: The food situation, the food centers that we've been to, the situation is really pathetic, and at this stage, we really need to galvanize whatever support we can, both locally and internationally.</s>BOND: Here, malnutrition has made children vulnerable to new disease, and famine, the local administration has said has already claimed some children's lives. Catherine Bond, CNN, Nairobi.
Kenya Confronts Worst Drought in Decades