Reports

Total Appeal Target : US$ 3,570,098Balance Requested from ACT Network US$ 1,512,675 Geneva, 10 July 2000 Dear Colleagues, The drought situation in Northern Kenya has deteriorated claiming more human lives and loss of thousands of livestock. The long rains…

1. The Worsening Drought Crisis in Kenya Seasonal rains in most of Kenya have now failed for 2 consecutive years leading to a devastating drought crisis that has engulfed some 3.3 million Kenyans, up sharply from an…

1. EMERGENCY OVERVIEW AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTSKenya amidst a major humanitarian crisis. Kenya has experienced successive droughts in 1991/92, 1996/97 and 1998/99, and devastating floods in 1997/98. Prolonged drought has substantially increased vulnerability to food insecurity amongst pastoralists…

Turkana drought relief program in northern Kenya. Residents of Nanaam village receive relief food. The food is distributed to individuals by fellow local community members. The Australian High Commissioner to Kenya, Philip Green, has expressed his satisfaction in the distribution of…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Donors Thursday started responding positively to Kenya's appeal for assistance to avert famine that threatens the survival of 22 million people in the country. President Daniel arap Moi Wednesday said his country urgently needed 11.5 billion…

Nairobi, 7th June 2000 Due to circumstances which are beyond her control Kenya is in the grip of very worrying natural calamities, which include extreme drought conditions, a spreading and deepening famine and a devastating AIDS pandemic. Over the last…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Several thousand people in northern Kenya, majority of them children aged five years and below, are in danger of starvation unless they are urgently provided adequate supplies of highly nutritious food supplements, aid agencies warn. Aid…

Turkana, May 2000 - Even the wind is burning hot, dry and dusty. There is no grass around for miles and miles. It is hard to believe that this was once green plains with cows grazing peacefully. Now the cows…

In northern Kenya, over 4 million people are at risk of starvation. Currently, more than 700,000 people, including 100,000 children under the age of five, are in urgent need of supplemental food, health care, and clean water. The worst hit…

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's health ministry has placed its staff on high alert in the malaria prone districts over an expected epidemic. The ministry's head of malaria control, Sam Ochola, said Tuesday that measures had been instituted to contain…