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The 2001 UN Inter-Agency Donor Alert for the Drought in Kenya was launched in Nairobi on 15 February 2001 by Mr Shariff Nassir, Kenya's Minister of State in charge of Relief and Rehabilitation. In the past decade, Kenya has been hit by a series of natural disasters. The present drought, which began in 1999, has been the worst in the last sixty years. Small-scale subsistence farmers and pastoralists who depend on rain for their livelihoods have been reduced to a state of destitution and dependence on food aid. Their plight warrants immediate assistance through support to agricultural activities.