Informes

Oxfam's Liz Clayton visits drought-stricken Turkana, where nomadic farmers have lost much of their livestock and livelihood The rains have failed for the last three years, and people's traditional coping mechanisms are exhausted. Pastoralists earn their living by herding cattle…

NAIROBI (Aug. 3) XINHUA - Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has told drought-striken pastoralists to drive their livestock out of Mount Kenya National Park, saying that the herdsmen were an additional threat to the forest park. Herdsmen were aggravating the menace to…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - After a long spell of drought, Kenyans had a sigh relief over the weekend as downpours pounded parts of the country. According to reports reaching Nairobi, a break in the drought was felt since last week…

WASHINGTON, August 1, 2000 - The World Bank approved today a US$150 million credit to support Kenya's economic recovery efforts. The Kenya Economic and Public Sector Reform Credit will help Kenya improve economic growth and reduce poverty. It will support…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Authorities in Kenya have announced that they have put in place emergency measures that could cut the currently crippling power rationing by more than half in the next two months. Treasury Permanent Secretary Martin Oduor-Oteino said in…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent has launched a 5.6-million-Swiss-franc food relief distribution programme in Kenya's drought and famine stricken districts. The programme, carried out by Kenya Red Cross Society, took off Thursday…

Energy Crisis: Kenya was plunged into unprecedented power blackout last Saturday. Energy officials claim it was caused by major breakdowns in generating and transmission facilities both in Uganda and Mombasa. It was the most severe cut since power rationing was intensified…

Press Release No. 00/45 [Corrects and revises Press Release 00/45 issued at 10:45 a.m. EDT. Correction is limited to the first paragraph of the original press release.] The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Executive Board has approved in principle a three-year Poverty…

By Kathryn Wolford, LWR president She visited Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya in July. "We are a little bit okay." With that intriguing comment, the meeting of the Unity Women's Support Group began. Then the leader went on: "We…

The Disaster Three successive years of poor rainfall in some parts of Kenya have consequently resulted in poor harvests. The relief expected from the long rainy season (March - June) did not materialise as the poor and erratic pattern of…