Informes

ADDIS ABABA (Nov. 8) XINHUA - More than 5,000 Kenyan people, who have been taking refuge in southern Ethiopia, are expected to return home by early December, a U.N. refugee official said here on Wednesday. From November 9 to December…

NAIROBI (Nov. 7) XINHUA - More than 21,000 tons of relief food to Kenya donated by the United States have arrived at Mombassa Port in southeastern Kenya. The yellow maize will be distributed to an estimated 3.9 million hunger-stricken Kenyans…

The Disaster Three successive years of poor rainfall in some parts of Kenya throughout 1999 resulted in poor harvests. The relief expected from the long rainy season (March - June) did not materialise as the poor and erratic pattern of…

Nairobi - A massive frost has destroyed hundreds of hectares of prime maize crop in Kenya's central Laikipia district, threatening over 180,000 people with starvation. The frost, according to local media reports, has wiped out the entire maize crop in…

by Nigel Marsh, World Vision's East Africa Communications Manager Two years without rain have devastated crops and livestock herds, leaving more than three million people in Kenya without food or income. World Vision is providing food for 611,000 people in Turkana, Baringo,…

Harvesting of the 2000 main "long rains" cereal crops is complete in the main growing areas of the Rift Valley. The main rainy season (March-May), which normally accounts for 80 percent of total annual food production, has largely failed…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 2 November (IRIN) - Environmental organisations have warned that continued deforestation in Kenya will lead to severe consequences for the environment, affecting key production sectors if it proceeds…

Two years of drought has left over 3 million Kenyans at the brink of starvation and hunger-related disease. That number could reach as high as 4.7 million. Grazing lands are reduced to dust, crops are failing and cattle are dying.…

Kenya Older people in Kenya shake their heads with disbelief as they watch the ravage of the drought spreading in the country. "I pray that we will not see a repeat of the cassava drought," they say. The "cassava drought"…

NAIROBI, 30 October (IRIN) - A hidden drought in Kajiado District in southern Kenya threatens to render the resident Maasai pastoralists destitute with no chance of recovery before early 2002. According to the Dutch NGO, Semi-Arid Rural Development Programme (SARDP),…