Reports

NAIROBI, 14 May (IRIN) - Twenty-six people have died in the southern Kenyan district of Makueni after eating maize believed to have been contaminated with aflatoxin, a poisonous mould that grows mostly on cereals harvested or stored under damp…

Background: Food security remains precarious in Turkana and Marsabit Districts for an estimated 230,700 pastoralists, following a succession of poor seasons and growing chronic food insecurity, compounded by conflict. Current food insecurity is exhibited by unacceptably…

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Highlights Flooding along the Victoria Basin causes displacement. GoK and NGO humanitarian assistance in Marsabit and Turkana Districts mitigates food insecurity in the short to mid-term. Crop prospects favorable in key production areas but still uncertain elsewhere. Staple price…

NAIROBI, 15 April (IRIN) - Nearly 3,000 people have been displaced and eight killed by floods in several districts of Kenya as fears mount that more rivers could burst their banks, the Kenya Red Cross (KRC) said on Thursday.…

World Health Day, 7 April 2004Cologne/Nairobi. In sub-Saharan Africa, 1.6 Million people suffer from tuberculosis (TB), more than 6.000 people die of AIDS every day. Both infections are closely linked. In the Kenyan capital of Nairobi,…

Highlights GoK and donors respond to high food insecurity in Turkana and Marsabit. Close to one million now considered moderately to highly food insecure. Rains resume after a tentative start to the critical 2004 long-rains season. Crop forecast based on…

by Charles Maingi - Communications Children and adults in Kalokol Division, in Kenya's Turkana District, are going without food for days and many of them are able to keep alive only by feeding on the nut of the…

A World Vision nutrition survey in northwest Kenya has found malnutrition rates of 30 percent in some areas. Natole, a fishing community in the southern zone of Turkana district, recorded the worst malnutrition rates in the survey, with 30 percent…

Food Insecurity deepens in the Northwestern Pastoral Turkana and Marsabit Districts Food insecurity has become increasingly precarious in Turkana and Marsabit districts in northwestern Kenya. An estimated 184,000 persons in both districts (32 percent of the total…