Africa

UN backs early warnings to save Kenyan crops

Two years ago, Teresa Kahindi harvested nearly two tonnes of maize during a severe drought. Her neighbours in Kilifi County suspected witchcraft, as most couldn’t even produce a single sack of the staple crop amidst the fifth consecutive dry season in eastern Kenya. “They said I was a witch,” Kahindi, 53, mentioned while walking through her fields of black-eyed peas,…