People from Nairobi's impoverished neighbourhoods lined up to receive food from a relief centre set up by volunteer relief workers in the capital on Saturday.

Meanwhile, speaking on a donation ceremony at the Chinese Ambassy to Kenya, ambassador Zhang Ming says 30 thousand US dollars collected from the overseas Chinese and Chinese enterprises in Kenya is contributed as their part to the relief effort.

Keny is a close friend of China. All the Chinese people both living in Kenya and on the Chinese soil do care about the situation of Kenya. We are willing to share the pain and sorrow with the Kenyan people and also hope.

Whilst some shops in the capital started to reopen on Saturday, food shortages were still pressing for those living in poor areas of the city.

Widespread unrest has continued across Kenya after a disputed presidential vote last week led to days of violence.

Peter Smerdon, a spokesperson for the World Food Programme said the recent insecurity was affecting truck shipments of aid that were leaving the port city of Mombasa for destinations across the region.

WFP had a ship that came into Mombasa over the Christmas period with 30,000 metric tonnes of food, which is enough to feed 1.5 million people for a month. Two hundred trucks were loaded in Mombasa and some of them set out. Some of them made it through to Uganda or southern Sudan others are stranded en route, some are being escorted by the Kenyan army to get out of the places where they are stuck because of checkpoints.

WFP was responding to the crisis in Kenya and will shortly provide food through the Kenya Red Cross for 100,000 people displaced in the Northern Rift Valley according to a Red Cross assessment.