Rapports

NAIROBI (Sept. 9) XINHUA - The famine situation in Kenya is still severe and persistent with at least 3.3 million people being directly affected, the People daily reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Kenya's National Drought Response Committee Chairman Uhuru Kenyatta…

NAIROBI, Kenya Egypt Friday gave a donation of 870,000 shillings (about 11,500 US dollars) to the World Food Programme's emergency operation to help alleviate the plight of more than three million drought- afflicted people in Kenya. The cheque was presented…

The Government of Kenya has declared a national disaster in 19 districts due to the drought. An estimated 3.3 million people are at risk of starvation. Over a million children and 430,000 pregnant and lactating women are in urgent…

DAR ES SALAAM (Sept. 5) XINHUA - Tanzania reaffirmed Tuesday that remission of import duty payable by importers of maize grains will continue up to December this year in a bid to ease the ongoing food shortage in some…

Nairobi - Kenya has said that it would repatriate more than 200,000 Somali refugees as soon as a full-fledged government is established in the once war-ravaged Somalia. Speaking in Nairobi, Kenya's foreign affairs minister, Bonaya Godana, said that the presence…

THE Salvation Army International Emergency Services, operating in conjunction with the organisation's East Africa Territorial Headquarters in Kenya, is continuing to bring relief to those affected by famine. An order has been placed for 45,000 emergency family rations. These rations…

Summary The long-rains season has concluded in the severely drought-affected pastoral, agropastoral and marginal agricultural areas. Although rainfall was fairly heavy during May and June in the western areas of the country, the 2000 long-rains season was…

Nairobi, August 26, 2000 - UNICEF has called for urgent aid to over three million children in Kenya, who are threatened by death from malnutrition due to severe effect of drought in the country. UNICEF country director, Nicholas Alipu, told…

Nairobi, August 22, 2000 - Kenya's maize yields will drop by 43 percent in 2000 as a result of the ranging drought ravaging the country, agricultural experts have warned. They predict that barely 19 million bags will be harvested from…

Kenya is suffering from "the worst drought in living memory". For the fourth successive season the rains have failed, and the greatest impact is being felt in the remote and traditionally arid areas of the North. The population of Marsabit…