Informes

Nairobi -- WFP today expressed deep concern that a 50 per cent cut in food rations for thousands of refugees in Kenya would have to continue until the end of the month, and could lead to a deterioration in…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 98/0169 (Second) Appeal for International Assistance 1. The torrential rainfall, considered to be associated with the El-Nino event, continued from October to December 1997, and resumed again during the first week of January 1998. The continuation of the rains…

Appeal Target : US$ 308,509 Geneva, March 3, 1998 Dear Colleagues, Several hundred people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced due to violent clashes in the Rift Valley Province and other parts of Kenya. Sources maintain that the…

Nairobi-- Two U.S. C-130 Hercules aircraft flew their first mission yesterday from Mombasa to assist the United Nations World Food Programme in its Kenya flood emergency operation. WFP welcomed the U.S. contribution of planes which airdropped 16 tons of maize…

Nairobi -- The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that food rations for 125,000 refugees in north eastern Kenya's Dadaab camps will be cut by half in two weeks' time if urgent funding for the Dadaab airbridge is…

REGIONAL ISSUES Kampala summit for development prioritisation: Thirteen African leaders including heads of states held a summit meeting in Kampala, Uganda, on 22/23 January. The summit, called "leaders forum", was the first in a planned series and was also attended by…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 07 of 1998 Date: 13 February 1998 This report includes: A) Sierra Leone B) Afghanistan C) East Africa: Regional, Kenya and Somalia D) Iraq E) El Nino…

NAIROBI -- The UN World Food Programme appealed today for US$17 million to maintain deliveries of food and other vital supplies to more than one million flood victims in Kenya and Somalia. The appeal to the international donor community followed…

PR 98/6 Rome, February 10 -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today that the combined effects of flooding and livestock diseases have killed tens of thousands of animals in northeastern Kenya and southern Somalia, appealing for…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 06 of 1998 Date: 06 February 1998 This report includes: A) West Africa: Sierra Leone and Liberia B) East Africa I: Somalia and Kenya Floods C) East Africa…