Rapports

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Briefing on Water Hyacinth 17 December 97 IRIN provides this background briefing for the benefit of the humanitarian community. It…

NATIONS UNIES Departement des Affaires Humanitaires / IRIN Afrique Centrale et de l'Est Tel: +254 2 622 147 Fax: +254 2 622 129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org Bulletin special d'information d'IRIN sur les jacinthes d'eau en Afrique de l'Est, mercredi 17 decembre 1997. IRIN publie ce…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's government says it has started massive food, fuel and drug airlifts to flood victims in the north-eastern and northern parts of coastal provinces. The United States and Japan have also joined in the flood disaster…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org Kenya: IRIN Election Briefing 13 December 1997 97.12.13 Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi will face 14 challengers, including two women, in…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 50 of 1997 Date: 12 December 1997 This report includes: A) El Nino: Central America B) East and Central Africa: Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Democratic…

Nairobi -- The United Nations World Food Programme said today it has started an airlift to provide urgently needed food rations and emergency supplies to flood victims in the seven worst-hit areas of Kenya. The one-month operation will deliver 1,000 metric…

The gravity of the consequences of the unusually heavy rains pounding northern Kenya is yet to be known. Indeed, it will be some time before the damage and losses caused by the raging floods are assessed. However, the latest…

By PAUL KATANA. Thousands of people at Garsen, including those who were evacuated from Kipini in Tana River District, have once again been displaced and are faced with starvation following fresh floods on Monday - night. At the same time, Coast…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Britain has given Kenya 13.5 million shillings (some 211,665 U.S. dollars) for flood and diarrhoea emergency relief operations which have brought death to thousands of people in the northern part of the country, the national news…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS Floods continue to inundate three refugee camps with some 123,000 people in Ifo, Dagahely, and Hagadera in northeastern Kenya. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), mud-walled refugee homes are crumbling in the Ifo camp where some…