Reports

The United States remains concerned about the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa, where drought is affecting as many as 16 million people this year. In particular, 7-8 million pastoralist herders and farmers in northeastern Kenya, southern Somalia,…

NAIROBI, March 27 (Reuters) - The International Federation of the Red Cross appealed on Monday for $15.4 million to help feed people in drought-hit east Africa, where millions are threatened with starvation. The world's largest disaster relief network said the money…

The situation is critical, according to the World Health Organisation's threshold of measurement Garissa, North Eastern Province, Kenya - One-year-old Marian Harun is passed to nutritionist Leila Ahmed to be weighed. She swings gently in the air, beneath scales suspended from…

As millions of people in Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa fight a daily battle against starvation, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and its members are working around the clock to prevent an…

Appeal to support relief action of the YMCAs of Kenya and Tanzania More than 20 million people in the Horn of Africa are currently at risk of famine due to drought, and the rain cycle in the area has decreased…

LUKOLE CAMP, Tanzania, Mar 22 (UNHCR) - Any time you can't find a doctor or nurse at the NPA Hospital in this refugee camp in western Tanzania, just check the library. "If somebody has the chance, this is where they…

Bonn, 21 March 2006. In connection with World Water Day on March 22, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (German Agro Action) has highlighted the fact that water shortages are greatly exacerbating the consequences of famine. "Around 3.5 million people in Kenya do not…

Three million children across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia - 600,000 of whom are under five years old - are suffering from severe food and water shortages, as the region experiences its worst drought since 1993. Up to 42 per…

By Sabine Dolan NEW YORK, USA, 21 March 2006 -- The nomadic Turkana tribes of northeastern Kenya have been especially vulnerable to the severe year-long drought afflicting the Horn of Africa. Like most pastoral and farming communities in the region, the…

Malnutrition in northern Kenya rising at alarming rates as pastorialists losing livestock no longer have the means to feed their families by Richard Wainwright So far there have been few human deaths reported in the region but "it is…