Informes

by Charles Maingi - Communications Children and adults in Kalokol Division, in Kenya's Turkana District, are going without food for days and many of them are able to keep alive only by feeding on the nut of the…

A World Vision nutrition survey in northwest Kenya has found malnutrition rates of 30 percent in some areas. Natole, a fishing community in the southern zone of Turkana district, recorded the worst malnutrition rates in the survey, with 30 percent…

Food Insecurity deepens in the Northwestern Pastoral Turkana and Marsabit Districts Food insecurity has become increasingly precarious in Turkana and Marsabit districts in northwestern Kenya. An estimated 184,000 persons in both districts (32 percent of the total…

The East Africa Landmines Workshop, organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Governments of Kenya and Canada, has just ended in Nairobi with an urgent call for renewed commitment to implementing the 1997 Ottawa…

DADAAB, Kenya (UNHCR) - Imagine living in a small hut that collapses under heavy rain, and sharing a door-less toilet with some 200 people. For more than a decade, this has been a daily reality for more than 135,000 people…

By Linda Bartolomei In February, I returned to Kenya with other research team members from the University of New South Wales, Australia, with whom JRS is a research partner. It was on our first visit to Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, in…

SUMMARY The Kenya Meteorological Department has released the 2004 long-rains season forecast, which predicts near normal rainfall for most of the country. The short rains maize harvest is underway in Eastern and Central Provinces; meanwhile, long rains planting…

Nairobi, 04 March 2004 - A new initiative to restore the Nairobi Dam and its waters back to health will be launched tonight by H.E Hon. Moody Awori, Vice President of Kenya, Klaus Toepfer, the Executive Director of the…

NAIROBI, 25 February (IRIN) - The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says thousands of refugees in northern Kenya face food shortages in the coming months unless the organisation gets immediate assistance. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the WFP said it…

NAIROBI, 23 February (IRIN) - Miloon Kothari, the independent special rapporteur on adequate housing of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was on mission in Kenya for two weeks in February. While in Kenya, he examined the…