Reports

The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, today announced €50,000 in funding for the Mater Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. The hospital, which was opened by Irish Sisters of Mercy, is celebrating its…

DAADAB, 31 July 2012 (IRIN) - Large quantities of foodstuffs and other goods were destroyed by a fire on 29 July at the main market in one of the camps making up Dadaab refugee complex in…

Contributeur Mélissa Chamam (Slate Afrique) De nombreuses ONG et organisations internationales se sont établies dans la capitale kényane, une zone stable à proximité des foyers de crise somaliens et soudanais. Une manne dont les associations locales estiment…

Andie Long Senior Communications Officer Earlier this summer I spent three weeks in Kenya with Mercy Corps colleagues who are implementing an ambitious program called “Yes Youth Can!” (YYC). Led by youth themselves, the initiative aims to create…

Kakuma, 30 July 2012 – Technological and environmental advances in the Jesuit Refugee Service higher education programme in northern Kenya have made power cuts a thing of the past for the students taking liberal studies. Last month,…

by Mohammed Yusuf NAIROBI — The Kenyan Red Cross says more than 30,000 refugees have entered the country from Ethiopia in the past few days to escape fighting in their own country, though the ethnic battles now…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of wheat flour from the Russian Federation worth US$2 million (about Ksh. 170 million) to provide assistance to vulnerable people in Kenya, including the drought-affected…

A Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) rapid assessment of the fierce fighting around the Ethiopian Moyale border and its environs since Thursday 26th July 2012, has revealed that the conflict has caused deaths, injuries and loss…

The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), Rift Valley Region conducted a medical camp from 19th to 21st July 2012 at Chemusian, Burnt Forest and Eldoret East Constituency. The medical camp targeted the Mau evictees who are vulnerable…

WAJIR, 26 July 2012 (IRIN) - Parts of northeastern Kenya, which are experiencing an early drought after poor March-May long rains, have seen deadly clashes over water and pasture, say officials. Migrant pastoralists from parts of the…