Rapports

This report includes: (A) Resources (B) Executive Board Session (C) Horn of Africa: (1) Kenya, (2) Ethiopia (D) Great Lakes Region: (1) Democratic Republic of Congo, (2) Tanzania, (3) Burundi (E) Sierra Leone (F) Angola (G) Palestinian Territory (H) Afghanistan…

Nairobi As if the severe drought that has devastated the country in the past two years is not bad enough, Kenya appears to be bracing for its worst food crisis next year. The early warning unit in the agriculture…

By Tervil Okoko Nairobi Kenyan police have sealed all illegal cross-border routes into Uganda, leaving only the main Busia and other major posts, as part of precautionary measures against the spread of the deadly Ebola disease. More than 160 cases and…

News Release No: 2001/105/AFR NAIROBI, October 26, 2000 - The World Bank has approved a US$72 million credit to assist Kenya in alleviating severe power shortages that have devastated its economy. The Kenya Emergency Power Supply Project will support contracts…

The Salvation Army International Emergency Services project in Kenya is now halfway through its planned three month campaign to help alleviate the situation of those suffering from famine and severe drought conditions. To date 25,000 families, representing 150,000 people, in…

Nairobi, Kenya - The Kenyan Ministry of Health has issued an alert on the deadly Ebola epidemic to residents of Lokichoggio, a town near the country's border with Uganda, local press reports said Wednesday. The outbreak has killed more than…

NAIROBI, 24 October (IRIN) - As the UN marked World Food Day last week, international organisations noted that five million people remain highly food insecure in the East African countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. All three countries figure in…

NAIROBI, 24 October (IRIN) - Conflict, more than any other issue, poses the biggest problem to relief projects such as the anti-polio campaign launched in Kenya and Sudan at the weekend, the executive director of the UN Children's Fund…

The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today began a four-day visit to the Sudan and Kenya, where she will help to launch polio immunization efforts in both countries. In the Sudan, where the Government and the Sudan…

NAIROBI, 19 October (IRIN) - As the death toll crept up in the ebola fever epidemic in northern Uganda, health officials confirmed the disease was confined to the Gulu area and had not spread as originally feared. Information officer for…