Reports

GENEVA – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, voiced today his deep regrets about the senseless killing of a refugee leader in the Dadaab refugee complex in northern Kenya yesterday evening (Thursday 29…

ISIOLO, 28 December 2011 (IRIN) - Fighting between communities over grazing land in northern Kenya's Isiolo region has led to at least 10 deaths and the displacement of some 2,000 people in the past three days,…

Dear friend, In the decades I've been working to solve global problems, I've never seen a crisis like the one we're currently tackling in the Horn of Africa. Millions of people have been displaced by the worst drought…

MOYALE, 23 December 2011 (IRIN) - Several weeks of fighting between two rival communities in Moyale, near the Ethiopia-Kenya border, [ http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=94053 ] has displaced hundreds of families and disrupted transport services. The displaced have had…

By CHRISTABEL LIGAMI Posted Sunday, December 18 2011 at 00:00 Kenya’s child mortality rate has gone up by 21 per cent over the past one year while maternal deaths have risen by a similar margin, a signal that…

The United Nations says aid agencies have had to further reduce services at the Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya after a series of attacks targeting security forces in the area. Refugees at the camp say…

KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya, December 26 (UNCHR) – Adieu Chol Bior, 31, will never forget the day when rival Nuers raided her Dinka village in Sudan. She was perhaps 10 years of age, and as her…

MARALAL [ACTED News] – More than 80,000 people have been affected by flooding during the past two weeks in western, northern, and north-eastern Kenya according to various assessments conducted by the Government of Kenya, UN agencies,…

The Horn of Africa crisis has been in the news a lot. Millions of people (particularly in Somalia) are on the brink of starvation. Kenya is Somalia’s western neighbor, and the drought that is affecting so many…

Reporting period: 08 to 14 December 2011 HIGHLIGHTS • Malnutrition rates have significantly reduced in Turkana County within the last six months following scale up of life saving nutrition interventions. Turkana North East which was most affected, has…