Informes

SUDAN: Khartoum calls for condemnation of SPLM/A The government of Sudan has written to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan requesting that the international community, and the United Nations in particular, condemn "the ongoing aggression by the rebel movement (Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army)…

Research in Progress The effective management of emergency food aid programmes requires information not only about needs, but also about impact. To date, measuring impact in emergencies is mostly limited to infrequent nutritional surveys, or expensive ex-post…

General Situation   40 more Tanzanian refugees returned home from Kenya in late August. This leaves some 463 Tanzanians remaining in Dadaab refugee camp in north east Kenya. Following the rejection of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority (Kaca) Bill by…

NAIROBI, 31 August (IRIN) - Over 800 people reduced to living in makeshift shelters by the side of the Thika-Naivasha road have complained that they were harassed by forestry officials into leaving Kyeni Forest, 95 km from the Kenyan…

"Linking Emergency with Long Term Development" Donor Support to UNICEF Kenya Highest In the Region Under the current UN Consolidated Appeal (CAP). UNICEF Kenya has so far received financial contribution of over US$7.2 million or 72% against a…

Summary of a report The previous issue of Field Exchange reported on a WFP assessment of community-based targeting (CBT) in Marsabit district in Kenya from a gender based perspective. WFP have just completed a similar type of assessment in the…

HIGHLIGHTS DROUGHT IN NORTHEAST GETTING WORSE UN TEAM SAYS SMALL ARMS THREAT IS SERIOUS ANTI-CORRUPTION BILL DEFEATED - AID MONEY STILL SUSPENDED POLIO AND VITAMIN A VACCINATIONS START FREE DRIVER TRAINING OFFER! BACKGROUND The Horn of Africa The Government and Opposition parties have been…

UGANDA: Besigye explains reasons for fleeing Former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, who fled his Kampala home on 17 August and arrived in the US via South Africa on Friday 24 August, has said that he fled Uganda last week because he…

TANZANIA: Police clamp down on protest in Dar es Salaam Over 170 people were arrested and 11 taken to hospital during violent demonstrations in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, on 24 August, when riot police used tear gas to…

UGANDA: Government unconcerned by Besigye 'disappearance' Senior presidential adviser on media and public relations John Nagenda on Thursday dismissed as an unimportant issue the alleged disappearance of former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, who came second to President Yoweri Museveni in elections…