Reports

While public attention is focused on major news events, silent disasters are taking place in Africa. Providing rapid assistance would save lives and be less expensive in the long run. This is the conclusion arrived at by UNICEF in a…

Donors must increase funding for drought-stricken areas of northern Kenya to avert a humanitarian catastrophe, British medical aid charity Merlin warned today. Merlin has doubled the scale of its nutrition screening and feeding programme (1), and is currently treating…

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. MDRKE001; Operations…

Food shortages in Africa is 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…

Drought is ravaging central Africa as the November 2005 long rains failed to arrive. Over 3.5 million people in Kenya, including over 500,000 children, do not have food supplies or water sufficient to survive and are taking extreme measures…

FOOD SECURITY SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS Recent food security assessments have confirmed that the food security and livelihood crisis in the northern and eastern pastoral districts has worsened after the failed October-December short-rains season. Substantial food insecurity has…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 8 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - At least 12 people have died since January from a meningitis outbreak that has spread from northeastern Uganda to Kenya's West Pokot…

Vatican City, 8 February 2006 - Caritas Internationalis has sent out an appeal for nearly 1.2 million US dollars to feed women, children, the sick and the elderly in Kenya, where food aid doesn't always reach those most in…

[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 8 Feb 2006 (IRIN) - The failure of the 2005 short rains in 25 Kenyan districts has left at least 3.5 million people, including 500,000 school…

In July 2004, an emergency operation was approved to provide assistance to 2.3 million drought affected and food insecure people. The operation included provision of food relief and emergency interventions in health, nutrition, water, sanitation, education,…