GENEVA—The United Nations appealed on Friday for a further $150 million to help hundreds of thousands of Kenyans left destitute by recent post-electoral violence.
The U.N. has already received $38 million of the $42 million it initially sought for Kenya in January, Elisabeth Byrs of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
"The appeal has been revised and increased to extend throughout the whole year. We need $150 million to help people in need following Kenya's crisis," she told a news briefing.
At least 1,200 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were left homeless following President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election in December.
The added U.N. aid would help 500,000 people directly affected by that turmoil, as well as 840,000 people at risk from drought, Byrs said.
Kenya's opposition suspended talks earlier this week with Kibaki's party and police fired tear gas to scatter opposition supporters protesting against deepening deadlock over a power-sharing cabinet.
