Reports

SUMMARY The 2003/04 short-rains season is now underway. Rainfall has varied widely: exceptionally high in the central regions and in some eastern pastoral areas and poor in the coastal districts and the north western pastoral districts. The Kenya Food Security Steering…

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Officials at Kenya's drought early warning system have sounded an alert over looming drought in parts of Kajiado bordering Tanzania, following a prolonged dry spell in the largely arid and semi-arid district. District early warning officer…

An estimated 260,000 persons in coastal households are highly food insecure, following 2-3 successive failures of the more important long-rains season. Another 310,000 persons are expected to be similarly food insecure, should the October -- December…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 29 October (IRIN) - When Hussein Abdi returned home one evening from a trip to Wajir, northeastern Kenya, he found a shocking scene: the bodies of his…

The Kenya government has allocated Sh. 37 million (US$ 472,900) for the repair and rehabilitation of dykes along River Nzoia so as to check flooding in Budalang'i Division, Western Province, where World Vision's Bunyala Area Development Programme (ADP) is…

NAIROBI, 15 October (IRIN) - The UN, donors and aid agencies are being asked to club together to raise funds for the Turkana in northeastern Kenya, who over the last 10 years have hosted an aid operation for war-torn…

Michelle Brown and Larry Thompson of Refugees International recently returned from an assessment mission to the Kakuma refugee camp. Kakuma camp in Kenya is one of the oldest and largest refugee camps in the world. The inhabitants of the camp…

Wednesday, 8 October 2003: UNDP, with support from Sweden, will work with communities in five countries on innovative ways, such as using wind and solar energy, to improve water supplies and sanitation. The small grant Community Water Initiative, launched at the…

Kakuma camp is in the Turkana area of Kenya, one of the poorest regions of the country. With 86,000 refugees, it dwarfs Kakuma town, which has roughly 30,000 residents. There is no doubt that the services available to refugees…

SUMMARY Farming households in the pastoral and marginal agricultural districts are eagerly anticipating the onset of the 2003/04 short-rains season, even as unseasonable rainfall continues in the high potential western Kenya. Key pastoral production resources - water, pasture and browse - have…