Reports

GENEVA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - An unidentified disease which may have killed up to 250 people in remote northeastern Kenya and Somalia since October is not a threat to tourists, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. A localised…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - A United Nations agency, the World Food Programme, said it started Christmas food airdrops Wednesday to hundreds of thousands of people cut off by floods in remote areas of Kenya and to refugee camps in…

DHAGVA - 97/0879 INTRODUCTION 1. Since the Government appeal of 26 November 1997, further flood assessment missions have been fielded by the donors and the Government to flood affected districts of North Eastern and the Tana River delta where exceptionally heavy…

Nairobi -- The United Nations World Food Programme said today it has begun Christmas airdrops of urgently needed food to hundreds of thousands of people cut off by floods in remote areas of Kenya. At the same time, WFP…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Background: Unrelenting rains have pounded Kenya's Coastal, Eastern, and North Eastern provinces since mid-October, causing the most severe flooding in the country in more than…

World Vision is helping to fight a cholera outbreak which has so far killed an estimated 30-45 people in two of the worst slums in Nairobi located in the Mathare and Korogocho areas. Working with other relief agencies, World…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org Kenya: IRIN Election Briefing 13 December 1997 97.12.13 Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi will face 14 challengers, including two women, in…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 50 of 1997 Date: 12 December 1997 This report includes: A) El Nino: Central America B) East and Central Africa: Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Democratic…

Nairobi -- The United Nations World Food Programme said today it has started an airlift to provide urgently needed food rations and emergency supplies to flood victims in the seven worst-hit areas of Kenya. The one-month operation will deliver 1,000 metric…

KENYA FLOODS UNHCR is moving 5,000 refugees whose shelters have been destroyed by the floods in the Somali camps of Ifo and Dagahaley to higher ground. Rains have continued near the Dadaab area of north-eastern Kenya and water is…