Reports

Five more children died at the Kakamega County Referral Hospital on Thursday night following a malaria outbreak in the region. This brings to a total of 12, the number of children who have died at the hospital…

The world's largest refugee camp is also a giant social experiment. Take hundreds of thousands of Somalis fleeing a war. Shelter them for 24 years in a camp in Kenya run by the United Nations. And offer…

HIGHLIGHTS As at 28 May 2015, Kakuma had received 45,924 asylum seekers from South Sudan. As at 24 May, 183,839 refugees and asylum seekers had been registered by UNHCR and DRA, with South Sudanese refugees making up…

here’s a lot that entrepreneurs in the nutrition sector can learn from each other, but it’s not always easy to find out who’s doing what. GAIN’s Community of Practice (CoP) helps entrepreneurs, investors and organisations working in…

In Summary Medical Superintendent Austin Acheri said regional blood collection centres in neighbouring counties such as Kisumu and Eldoret did not have enough stocks. She said the hospital had a shortage of blood groups compatible with samples obtained…

The project is supported by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) under the USAID funded Resilience for Economic Growth in Arid Lands- Improved Resilience (REGAL-IR) program. Prior to the project Paulina did not possess sufficient…

28 May 2015, Nairobi/London: As violence and threats in the northeastern province of Kenya escalate, international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has evacuated 42 of its staff from Dadaab refugee camps to Nairobi.…

27 May 2015: MSF can confirm that following a series of recent incidents in the area of Dadaab, 40 staff members have been relocated to Nairobi. This is a preventive measure which will unfortunately have a…

Five people were killed and at least 10 injured after pastoralists from two communities clashed over water in Attan, Isiolo County, on Tuesday. The pastoralists from Turkana and Samburu communities engaged in a nine-hour gun battle at…

Highlights Kenya has undergone a secession of poor rainy seasons, with the last good rainfall seasonal pattern having occurred in 2013. The Long rains season of 2015 performed poorly in the beginning of the season but picked…