Reports

Summary Three and a half million people are currently suffering one of the worst drought-related crises in Kenya's history. This complex livelihood crisis, compounded by the immediate stress factors of water and food scarcity, has already led to a sharp…

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 183 countries. In Brief Appeal No.…

Amber Meikle, CARE International UK's senior press officer, visited CARE's teams on the Kenyan and Somali border, as they tirelessly work to relieve the effects of drought. Here she describes what she found. Throughout El Wak district people - pastoralists -…

HEALTH SITUATION The Horn of Africa is facing severe food insecurity due to the prolonged drought throughout the region. Reduced food intake and lack of varied diet, leading to malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies (e.g. vitamin A) will result in increased…

Despite the recent rains in the Horn of Africa people are still dealing with the devastating consequences of three years of drought. In Mandera, north-east Kenya, between 50 and 75 per cent of livestock have perished and the district has…

Oxfam is now helping more than 500,000 people in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. Nomadic herding communities are most at risk in the food crisis that continues to grip East Africa. In many areas, more than 70 percent of the…

By Julie Mwabe & Emma Cockburn GARISSA / NAIROBI, Kenya, 9 May 2006 More than half a million vulnerable children under the age of five have been immunized against measles and polio in the first phase of a…

President Mwai Kibaki has urged African legislators to provide the way forward towards ending the cycle of famine in the continent by legislation and other measures that will raise agricultural productivity and promote rural development. Speaking when he officially opened…

Nairobi, May 05, 2006 - The Government has so far committed Kshs 14 billion from the budget to provide famine relief to those affected by drought in the country, President Mwai Kibaki said today. President Kibaki said the Government has also…

NEW YORK, USA, 4 May 2006 - Pregnant women are showing even higher rates of malnutrition than children in parts of Kenya hit by the region's worst drought in a decade. UNICEF nutritionists, who have visited remote communities in…