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By Manoah Esipisu NAIROBI, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Kenyan AgricultureMinister Musalia Mudavadi said on Thursday thecountry will have to make sacrifices and possibly paymore taxes because of crop damage caused by threemonths of unseasonable rain. Mudavadi told Reuters Television in an interviewthat…

OVERVIEW Since October 1997, exceptionally heavy rains associated with the El Niño phenomenon have caused havoc in most parts of eastern Africa, with severe floods seriously affecting food production and distribution. The floods have also caused extensive damage to crops, both…

ICRC NEWS 05 ** SHORT MENU.... KENYA: RED CROSS RELIEF AID IN RIFT VALLEY: For the past eight months, the Pokot and Marakwet districts in Kenya's Rift Valley have been rocked by violence between the two resident ethnic groups. Inter-tribal cattle-rustling…

NAIROBI - The World Food Programme signed a US$1.3 million agreement with the Kenya Railways Corp. today that will enable WFP to deliver food aid faster and more cheaply to the Great Lakes region. Under the agreement, signed by WFP's Regional…

WFP SIGNS US$1.3 MILLION AGREEMENT WITH KENYA RAILWAYS TO IMPROVE FOOD TRANSPORT TO THE GREAT LAKES NAIROBI - The World Food Programme signed a US$1.3 million agreement with the Kenya Railways Corp. today that will enable WFP to deliver food…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 05 of 1998 Date: 30 January 1998 This report includes: A) East Africa I: Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda B) Sudan C) East Africa II: Somalia and Kenya…

Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1998. Kenya President Daniel Arap Moi won reelection in December in Kenya's second general elections since the restoration of multiparty politics in 1991. While observers considered…

Although Rift Valley fever has been confirmed in the current outbreak affecting humans and livestock in Kenya and Somalia, it is evident that other causes have contributed to the high rate of haemorrhagic symptoms and deaths among both humans…

Uncharacteristically heavy rainfall in Kenya, which began in October, continued through mid-January, resulting in renewed flooding, especially in eastern pastoral areas and around Lake Victoria. Roads in pastoral areas that opened briefly at the end of…

Nairobi, January 28, 1998 -- Heavy rains caused by El Niño have exacerbated outbreaks of Rift Valley fever, cholera and malaria in Kenya's northeastern, eastern, central, coastal and Rift Valley provinces, as well as in southern Somalia, according to…