Informes

Kenya Flood Relief & Rehabilitation - AFKE81 Appeal Target : US$ 239,020 Dear Colleagues, Kenya has experienced exceptionally heavy rains these past several weeks. Reported to be the most intense in 40 years, the rains have caused serious flooding…

Floods and diseases: As in other Horn of Africa countries, Kenya was also recently affected by floods and diseases. Thousands of families were driven from their homes when Kenya's Tana river burst its banks and flooded large areas around Garissa…

GENEVA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - An unidentified disease which may have killed up to 250 people in remote northeastern Kenya and Somalia since October is not a threat to tourists, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. A localised…

Kenya Exceptionally heavy rainfall continued into November across much of Kenya, with the east and northeast receiving 2 to 10 times normal rainfall (fig 2). The Government of Kenya estimates that 300,000 persons have been adversely affected…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - A United Nations agency, the World Food Programme, said it started Christmas food airdrops Wednesday to hundreds of thousands of people cut off by floods in remote areas of Kenya and to refugee camps in…

DHAGVA - 97/0879 INTRODUCTION 1. Since the Government appeal of 26 November 1997, further flood assessment missions have been fielded by the donors and the Government to flood affected districts of North Eastern and the Tana River delta where exceptionally heavy…

Nairobi -- The United Nations World Food Programme said today it has begun Christmas airdrops of urgently needed food to hundreds of thousands of people cut off by floods in remote areas of Kenya. At the same time, WFP…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Background: Unrelenting rains have pounded Kenya's Coastal, Eastern, and North Eastern provinces since mid-October, causing the most severe flooding in the country in more than…

World Vision is helping to fight a cholera outbreak which has so far killed an estimated 30-45 people in two of the worst slums in Nairobi located in the Mathare and Korogocho areas. Working with other relief agencies, World…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme This report includes: A) East Africa: Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia B) Central Africa: Congo/Brazzaville and Democratic Republic of Congo C) Angola D) Afghanistan E)…