Diseases, hunger eating through children in arid, semi-arid regions Tuesday June 01 2021 Rehema Mohammed with her son two-year-old Mohammed Juma. The child was malnourished but in the process of recovery. PHOTO | BERNADINE MUTANU | NMG Advertisement Giving birth to twins at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic still ranks as one of the most difficult periods in Josephine Kericho’s life. Kericho was not only unemployed but also fighting hunger. Had she given birth at home, the 25-year-old mother of five says, she would have died together with her now 11-month-old twins. Death would have come either at childbirth or shortly after from hunger.