Informes

HIGHLIGHTS Food basket to improve in worst-affected areas; pipeline shortfalls remain. Pastoralists' grazing indicators improve; food insecurity remains precarious. Rains now widespread and expected to extend through January. Maize deficit likely to widen because GoK and private sector imports fall short.…

KAKUMA, Kenya, Dec 1 (UNHCR) - There's not much open talk of sex among the Dinka people of Sudan. "Even when I get married, my mother won't tell me what to expect on my wedding night," says one young…

While rainfall has been reported in some parts of the country, food shortages have continued in pastoral and marginal agricultural districts of Kenya. World Vision Kenya is implementing a number of emergency projects, with support from various partners, including general food…

When the KANU (Kenya African National Union) government was voted out in December 2002 after almost 40 years in power, around 350,000 remaining internally displaced people (IDPs) regained hopes of returning to the land they had been forced to…

Merlin, the UK-based medical relief agency, is providing emergency nutrition and health assistance in northern Kenya, where more than two million people have been affected by severe drought. Rainfall in this region has been below average over the past two…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] AFRICA, 19 November (PLUSNEWS) - The Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB) approved on Thursday the fifth round of funding proposals to combat the three…

Highlights - Initial short rains performance good in pastoral areas and poor in cropping areas. - Improved rains in November critical for the marginal cropping areas. - Pastoral food insecurity worsens, as evidenced by high malnutrition rates in Garissa…

The World Food Programme (WFP) has pledged 19,970 metric tons of food to World Vision Kenya for distribution in Taita Taveta, Kilifi, Moyale, Baringo and Turkana Districts. Nearly 300,000 people are set to benefit from the food distributions, which include…

Elevated food insecurity likely to worsen due to pipeline shortfall, amidst heavy short rains Preliminary results from rapid assessments conducted by members of the Kenya Food Security Steering Group (KFSSG) indicate that food security has worsened significantly.…

NAIROBI, Oct. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The Kenyan government and the UN World Food Program (WFP) on Tuesday appealed international donor community to provide emergency food aid to feed at least 3.3 million people facing acute food shortages in the…