Reports

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) participated in a press conference today at the National Press Club with partners Land O'Lakes Inc., International Development Division and Hoops4Africa to spearhead a program called "Jump4Life." The program…

NAIROBI - The World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) appealed today for a total of US$29 million to assist 1.2 million people in Kenya struggling with critical food shortages, limited agricultural support, and shortages of basic…

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS The Kenya Food Security Steering Group (KFSSG) has developed an intervention plan to address heightened food insecurity in eastern districts and continuing food insecurity in the northwest. Based on results of comprehensive food security…

NAROK, Kenya - Silvia Selula looks dazed and lost. A faint wrinkle creases her otherwise cherubic face. Occasionally a furtive smile appears at the corner of her mouth. Her face says a lot about what she has endured, especially…

The Kenyan government has reneged on previous promises and removed all references to marginalized groups, minorities, pastoralists and hunter-gatherers from the proposed new Kenyan constitution document. Important gains for Kenya's poorest and most vulnerable peoples achieved during a three year…

The USDA August estimate for Kenya's total 2005/06 corn production is 2.8 million tons, up 800,000 tons from last year's poor harvest and 425,000 tons greater than the 5-year average of 2.38 million tons. A total national crop yield of…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 24 August (IRIN) - Kenya's attorney general, Amos Wako, on Tuesday released the country's proposed new constitution, which Kenyans are expected to adopt or reject in…

Schoolchildren writing in class at Undugu Society School, Mathare Valley, Kenya Emergency supplies provided by Diocese of Marsabit for thousands left homeless by ongoing feud in northern Kenya CAFOD is helping to assess the needs of those forced to flee their…

DADAAB, Kenya, August 17 (UNHCR) - The first airlifts from Kenya to Somalia in two years left Dadaab this week, bringing dozens of Somali refugees home to the north after more than a decade in exile. The first group of…

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS National food security assessments have now been concluded in 26 of the districts most affected by drought. Significant deterioration in household food security is evident among the eastern pastoral households and the farming households…