Reports

Have you said "Yes" for Kenyan Children? Highlights: The long rains have at last set in with widespread downpours being reported from most of the drought-affected districts of Kenya. Recent nutrition surveys undertaken by the Government of Kenya (GOK), UNICEF and non-governmental…

HIGHLIGHTS Four aid workers in UN car killed in ambush NGOs appeal for food funding Heavy rainfall in most northern pastoral districts Food security improves in arable areas. Drought not yet over HUMANITARIAN CONTEXT (Source: ALRMP) The prevalence of small arms and the inter-tribal…

News Release - For immediate release Geneva, 27/04/01 - Five members of Action by Churches Together (ACT) International are among the 42 humanitarian and development agencies in Kenya who have issued a joint statement announcing that food shortages are once…

By Huka Duba Poverty is painfully evident in the community of Lakartinya, Kenya. Food for the Hungry began working here two years ago, through the Marsabit Food Security Program. We were drawn by the people's physical weakness,…

Oxfam Community Aid Abroad has responded to Kenya's appeal for global humanitarian aid, and has just received one million dollars funding from the Australian Government for a drought rehabilitation program in the Mandera District, Northern Kenya. The drought, declared a…

News SOUTH AFRICA: Critics say AIDS report has achieved nothing The South African government on Thursday ran into a storm of criticism over the report of its controversial presidential AIDS advisory panel. Opposition parties condemned it as a waste of resources, while…

[This report does necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 2 April (IRIN) - One of the major issues discussed at the international AIDS conference in Durban last year was the question of making anti-AIDS drugs available at…

Nairobi, Kenya - Health authorities in Kenya have issued a typhoid, cholera and malaria outbreak alert in the capital Nairobi and Nyanza Province following the onset of the current rains. In Nairobi medical officers assured that the ministry of health had…

CCF has been working in Kenya since 1960. Approximately 39,000 children in 47 projects are receiving assistance from CCF. CCF-affiliated projects are located in both rural and urban areas. Some of the hardships experienced by Kenyans are drought, inaccessibility to…

SHIMONI, Kenya, 23 March (IRIN) - Singing and cheering, they usher in a new day the way they know best - swimming. The young and middle-aged male swimmers are some of the 2,303 asylum seekers from the isle of…