Rapports

Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, February 26, 1999. President Daniel Arap Moi was reelected in 1997 in Kenya's second general election since the restoration of multiparty politics in 1991. President Moi's Kenya…

Tanzania Following the extremely dry conditions in Tanzania from October to December, well-distributed rainfall starting in mid-January brought welcome relief. The rains were heaviest in the southern highlands and western Tanzania. In the bimodal northern regions (except…

From IFRC WEEKLY NEWS 08/99 East African business leaders are to establish a regional body to help private enterprises prepare for catastrophe. The move was the culmination, this week, of the Federation-supported "Disaster 99", the first East African conference on…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya will be hit by a severe famine in the next two months, comparable only to the 1984 one that ravaged the country and left hundreds destitute, according to climate and agricultural experts in the…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - There is a grim food situation for Kenyans living in marginal areas in the face of the drought currently ravaging some parts of the country, according to a USAID monthly publication. ''If the long rains are…

By Samuel Nduati Business Editor Nairobi - Cost-cutting ordered during the Budget is doing a great job for Kenya. It has helped make the economy stronger, Finance Minister Simeon Nyachae said yesterday. There is higher growth, single figure inflation and…

Failure of Short-Rains Crops in Tanzania Rainfall in Tanzania’s bimodal regions has been significantly below normal throughout the October to mid-January period. As a result, the vuli (short-rains) harvest in February/March is expected to be 80 to…

In a survey carried out in late December and early January, three months after cattle raiders descended on the Wajir district in Kenya's remote North-Eastern province, the Red Cross has found thousands of people, mainly women and children, still…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - A countrywide shortage of rice is imminent if the over 3,000 farmers in Kenya's Mwea irrigation scheme in the central province, maintain their refusal to deliver paddy to the national irrigation board. A senior board official…