Reports

by Omar Valdimarsson in Nairobi One and a half million Kenyan children are at risk of contracting measles after an upsurge of confirmed measles outbreaks in about 39 districts in Kenya. Health institutions in the country are on high…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The drought affecting the Horn of Africa and the cumulative effect of successive years of poor rains, coupled in some cases with conflict and civil unrest, is threatening the livelihoods of 15 million people, mostly pastoralists who depend…

Episcopal Relief and Development is providing emergency assistance to people in Kenya affected by severe drought. While parts of the country have received heavy seasonal rains, thousands living in districts in northern Kenya and millions in neighboring countries in East…

Businessman joins Senator Brownback in malaria awareness campaign By Jim Fisher-Thompson, Washington File Staff Writer Washington - Because a citizen of Kansas invented basketball, it was only fitting that Kansas Senator Sam Brownback would drive home his concern with health issues in…

[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] Nairobi, 25 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - An increase in cases of measles has prompted Kenya's health ministry to embark on an emergency vaccination campaign to protect children…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] KAKUMA, 21 April (PLUSNEWS) - Thousands of refugees in northern Kenya's Kakuma camp have signed up to be repatriated to their native southern Sudan. Among them is James…

Food shortages in Africa are becoming a familiar story. Last autumn the Sahel region was in the news, then it was the turn of southern Africa. Now, while these places continue to struggle, countries in East Africa are in…

World Vision and the World Food Programme's (WFP) food aid interventions in Kenya's drought crisis managed to reach more than 520,000 beneficiaries during the month of March. A total of 520,444 people received food in six districts. Of these, 483,205…

[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] Nairobi, 20 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - Kenya will phase out the use of sulphur-based antimalaria drugs in favour of the more effective artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) because the…

Although rains have fallen in the northern and eastern part of Kenya, there is no immediate relief in sight for drought-stricken pastoralists, CARE warns. The much-awaited April rains still look likely to be poor. The rains, the last in consecutive…