Rapports

NAIROBI, KENYA -The government of Kenya officially invited the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) to be a lead agency in the distribution of relief food and commodities in the Kitui District of Kenya in response to the current…

Tervil Okoko, PANA Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Nine people have reportedly starved to death in the drought-stricken north-eastern Kenyan district of Isiolo, about 610 km from Nairobi, local leaders claimed Monday. The leaders, led by councillor Omar Elmi and Abdi…

Tervil Okoko, PANA Correspondent NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - As Kenya reels under a heavy footing of severe drought and famine due to severe drought, farmers in the flat bed heartland of Mwea, Kirinyaga District, have claimed they have a lot…

NAIROBI (June 22) XINHUA - The water shortage is expected to worsen in the Kenyan capital Nairobi as water levels at the dams continue to drop due to poor rainfall. The East African Standard newspaper Thursday quoted acting Town Clerk…

Appeal Target: US$ 1,248,200 (Total Project Value 3,907,722) Geneva, 22 June 2000 Dear Colleagues, As the number of refugees mainly from the Southern Sudan continue to flow into Kenya, LWF continues to be the lead agency in the Kakuma…

Binaifir Nowrojee 1 Binaifir Nowrojee, Counsel for Human Rights Watch/Africa, examines why Tanzania and Kenya have recently become less hospitable to refugees. The army came and told us to pack what we could carry. Some people were driven by the army…

1. EMERGENCY OVERVIEW AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTSKenya amidst a major humanitarian crisis. Kenya has experienced successive droughts in 1991/92, 1996/97 and 1998/99, and devastating floods in 1997/98. Prolonged drought has substantially increased vulnerability to food insecurity amongst pastoralists…

NAIROBI (June 20) XINHUA - Kenya's economic growth slowed further in March as a prolonged drought and erratic power supply began to take its toll, the Central Bank of Kenya has said. The monthly Economic reviews issued here Monday by…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya government intends to establish soon a Desertification Community Trust Fund to help combat aridity in the country. The country's environment minister, Francis Nyenze, was Tuesday quoted by Kenya News Agency as saying that the trust fund…

EAST AFRICA: 16 million people facing "critical" food shortage Nearly 16 million people are facing critical food shortages due to drought-induced crop and livestock losses, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in its June food outlook. Pastoralists in the sub-region…