{
  "id": 20005352,
  "title": "Kenya faces maize production crisis as El Niño rains threaten farms with flooding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/kenya-faces-maize-production-crisis-as-el-nino-rains-threaten-farms",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-14T15:26:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/kenya-faces-maize-production-crisis-as-el-nino-rains-threaten-farms-with-flooding"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kenya is facing a fresh threat to its food production after months of poor rainfall left major maize-growing counties with significant yield deficits, even as strengthening El Niño conditions threaten to bring heavy rains, flooding and further agricultural losses. A new assessment by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) estimates that Kenya’s national […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}