Rapports

Nairobi, Kenya - Kenya police have been deployed to the Shimoni area in Kwale district on the Indian Ocean coast to track down over 500 Zanzibari refugees who have left the camp without informing the authorities. Police boss Dominic Mutevu…

The 2001 main "long rains" cropping season has begun and the outlook is favourable due to forecasts of normal rainfall in major producing areas. However, the outlook in pastoral areas remains bleak with expectations of below normal rainfall. Harvesting of…

A plan to allow settlement in protected woodlands draws allegations of political corruption. By Danna Harman Special to The Christian Science Monitor In its annual edition chronicling corruption, the popular Kenyan daily "The Standard" accuses the government this year of the usual…

SHIMONI, Kenya, 23 March (IRIN) - The case of the 2,303 supporters of the Civic United Front (CUF) opposition party - most of them from the island of Pemba - who are currently being accommodated in the small town…

SHIMONI, Kenya, 23 March (IRIN) - Singing and cheering, they usher in a new day the way they know best - swimming. The young and middle-aged male swimmers are some of the 2,303 asylum seekers from the isle of…

Because of the efforts of The Salvation Army, nobody has died in Nakuru District,' was the reaction of a Senior District Officer to the Army's feeding programme in the Nakuru District of Kenya. For the past six months an intensive programme…

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzanie - Les responsables du HCR qui se sont rendus la semaine dernière dans les îles de Pemba et de Zanzibar pour une évaluation sur place de la situation politique et sécuritaire dans ces îles, ont…

DAR ES SALAAM, Mar 20, 2001 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed its optimism that the political situation in Tanzania's semiautonomous Zanzibar region will soon allow for the safe return of…

"Kenyan children are counting on us, can we count on you?"Highlights The Kenyan Meteorological Department has warned that Western part of Kenya will experience floods during the long rains season, extending from March to May. However, North…

Water accessibility in Kenya "is worse now than it was 10 years ago," according to Victoria Adams, CCF's country facilitator for Kenya. Faced with population growth and increasing environmental degradation, the government and local communities have struggled to solve the…