Reports

Appeal Target: US$ 904,839 Balance Requested from ACT Network: US$ 75,320 Geneva, 24 June 2002 Dear Colleagues, This appeal is to enable ACT member Lutheran World Federation/Department for World Service (LWF/DWS) to continue addressing a drought-caused famine relief project in Turkana District, Northwest…

NAIROBI, 18 June (IRIN) - The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is set to begin the transfer of more than 5,000 Somali refugees who have been stranded for nearly two months at a makeshift…

By Andrei Neacsu in Nairobi, Kenya Today, 3,000 volunteers of the Kenya Red Cross begin a massive door-to-door campaign to help ensure that 14 million Kenyan children aged between nine months and 14 years are vaccinated against measles. The campaign…

Actress Jane Seymour will participate in Kenya measles campaign, aimed at preventing 18,000 annual deaths NAIROBI, June 13, 2002 - In an effort to prevent 18,000 infant and child deaths this year alone, Kenya will conduct its first countrywide mass…

Kajiado one of the districts in the rift valley province in Kenya is home to a number of Maasai pastrolists. The district falls under the arid and semi arid lands (ASAL). This means the area receives low rainfall, exprencies…

Testimony of Jason Phillips, IRC, Kenya, before US Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing entitled "Half a Loaf? - The Impact of Excluding Surplus Commodities from America's Response to Global Hunger" Jason Phillips,…

In arid and dusty northwestern Kenya, the lives of tens of thousands of refugees who sought safety at the Kakuma Refugee Camp, are once again being threatened. This time the cause is food scarcity. Kakuma, now 10-years old, is home…

NAIROBI, 4 June (IRIN) - The Kenyan government and the World Food Programme (WFP) have jointly sent emergency food aid to some 47,000 residents of Tana River District, eastern Kenya, who have been cut off by heavy rains that…

General Situation Heavy rains fell over many parts of Kenya during May causing flooding and landslides. More than 40 people were killed and it is reported that up to150,000 people were made homeless as a result of the rains. Road…

EMERGENCY OVERVIEW AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Analysis of drought patterns in Kenya over the last four decades indicates that the period between droughts has been decreasing consistently since the 1960's - with an established pattern of three years drought followed by…