Rapports

BYLINE=SONYA LAURENCE GREEN INTRO: THE FLOODING ACROSS KENYA HAS INCREASED, WITH AT LEAST 89 DEATHS REPORTED SO FAR, THOUSANDS OF HOMES INUNDATED BY WATER, AND MAJOR ROADS WASHED OUT. BUT AS THE FLOODING GETS WORSE, BOTH AID AGENCIES AND…

DATE=1/18/98 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-225446 TITLE=KENYA FLOODS (L) BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: FLOODING IN KENYA IS WASHING AWAY BRIDGES AND SENDING HOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO HIGH GROUND. AS V-O-A'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS, MORE THAN 90 PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DIED. TEXT: A FAMILY OF FIVE…

January 16, 1998 NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's president, Daniel arap Moi, has announced a massive emergency food distribution exercise to all areas affected by the current flooding as the effect of the El Nino weather phenomenon continued to be…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 03 of 1998 Date: 16 January 1998 This report includes: A) East Africa I: Floods - Somalia and Kenya B) East Africa II: Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania…

An outbreak similar to that reported in north-eastern Kenya has been reported in Somalia in the flooded area delimited by the towns of Belet Weyne and Johar on the Shabelle River. Four of 13 blood samples from suspected cases…

PR 98/3 Rome, January 15 -- A serious outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in parts of northeastern Kenya and adjacent areas of Somalia constitutes an international emergency, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today. The mosquito-borne disease is reported to have…

BYLINE=SCOTT STEARNS INTRO: HEAVY RAINS ARE CONTINUING TO POUND NORTHERN KENYA, DRIVING FARMERS OFF THEIR LAND AND FORCING SOMALI REFUGEES ON TO HIGHER GROUND. AS VOA'S SCOTT STEARNS REPORTS FROM NAIROBI, MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT SAY THE GOVERNMENT IS…

Rains continue to beat down on eastern Kenya's refugee camps at Dadaab, which have been cut off due to flooding since mid-November. Rising waters late last week forced UNHCR to relocate more than 3,500 refugees [676 families] from low-lying sections of…

NAIROBI, Kenya, (PANA) - Concern is growing in several parts of Kenya over the devastating landslides occasioned by heavy rains which have resurged after a two-week lull, cutting off major road links in eastern, coast and central provinces and…

Floods have mostly affected northern and eastern areas of the country, including Wajir where Oxfam's large relief food distribution programme had almost been completed . Oxfam is assessing needs in the most affected zones. There has been severe damage…