Reports

JOHANNESBURG, 20 December (IRIN) - A new report issued jointly by five UN agencies and the World Bank said this week that worsening HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria epidemics were not inevitable and could be controlled. The report entitled "Health:…

News AFRICA: Red Cross looks to its own on HIV/AIDS issue The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has made a frank admission that it needs to do more in view of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in…

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…

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…

The Disaster Three successive years of poor rainfall in some parts of Kenya throughout 1999 resulted in poor harvests. The relief expected from the long rainy season (March - June) did not materialise as the poor and erratic pattern of…

NAIROBI, 30 October (IRIN) - A hidden drought in Kajiado District in southern Kenya threatens to render the resident Maasai pastoralists destitute with no chance of recovery before early 2002. According to the Dutch NGO, Semi-Arid Rural Development Programme (SARDP),…

This report includes: (A) Resources (B) Executive Board Session (C) Horn of Africa: (1) Kenya, (2) Ethiopia (D) Great Lakes Region: (1) Democratic Republic of Congo, (2) Tanzania, (3) Burundi (E) Sierra Leone (F) Angola (G) Palestinian Territory (H) Afghanistan…

By Tervil Okoko Nairobi Kenyan police have sealed all illegal cross-border routes into Uganda, leaving only the main Busia and other major posts, as part of precautionary measures against the spread of the deadly Ebola disease. More than 160 cases and…

Nairobi, Kenya - The Kenyan Ministry of Health has issued an alert on the deadly Ebola epidemic to residents of Lokichoggio, a town near the country's border with Uganda, local press reports said Wednesday. The outbreak has killed more than…

NAIROBI, 19 October (IRIN) - As the death toll crept up in the ebola fever epidemic in northern Uganda, health officials confirmed the disease was confined to the Gulu area and had not spread as originally feared. Information officer for…