Rapports

NAIROBI (Dec. 4) XINHUA - On-going water rationing in Kenya's capital Nairobi is unlikely to end soon as no much rain in the current short rains season, city water general manager Peter Kimani has said. Kimani said here Sunday that…

NAIROBI, 24 November (IRIN) - Insecurity in the Kenyan Daadab refugee camps has left Somali refugees vulnerable to rape and armed attacks, but the Kenyan police lack resources to cope with the situation. In response, UNHCR has injected resources…

NAIROBI, 24 November (IRIN) - Fifty Ugandans are being held in a Nairobi hotel undergoing screening for possible Ebola fever. Local press reports said the 50, from the Ebola-hit Gulu district of northern Uganda, "slipped" into Nairobi. "We have not…

NAIROBI, 20 November (IRIN) - Somalia's newly appointed Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galeyr is in Nairobi for the first official meeting with Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi. The Somali parliament, elected in peace talks hosted in Djibouti, Arta, in…

The Red Cross has scaled up its drought relief programme to include the distribution of supplementary food, seeds and fertiliser in Kenya's Machakos District, where it has been providing monthly food rations since July to 125,500 people. Three successive years…

The much awaited, albeit delayed, 2000/01 short-rains season has begun. Low and poorly distributed rainfall has been the key feature of the short-rains so far, particularly in the severely drought affected eastern and northern districts of…

NAIROBI - November 15 - Xinhuanet - Food production in the country has been gradually declining for the past two decades - Kenya's Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Chris Obure has said. The growth in agriculture has remained stagnant or dropped…

KENYACurrent News Corruption: Kenya is ranked ninth among the 10 most corrupt countries in the world, fourth in Africa after Nigeria, Angola and Cameroon. These countries are followed by Mozambique and Uganda. The least corrupt African countries…

NAIROBI (Nov. 9) XINHUA - The British government signed a further grant of 8 million pounds (about 11.4 million U.S. dollars) for drought relief in Kenya on Wednesday, Kenya's major newspaper East African Standard reported Thursday. According to a press…

Each vehicle of the caravan disappeared from view, enveloped in a blanket of dust, as the procession continued 10 or so miles into the bush. Desolate fields marked the route. Dry stalks of corn were strewn on the ground…