Reports

This update covers the period 1 - 30 November 1997 Kenya Floods cause havoc: Torrential rain associated with the short-rainy season (September-November) have affected Kenya's coastal region as well as the normally rainfall-marginal North Eastern Province, killing some and making 25,000 homeless.…

Kenya Heavy October and November rains in Kenya have caused flooding in the coastal areas and along several rivers, made large areas of coastal and northeastern Kenya inaccessible, and damaged unharvested long-rains crops in western production zones. In the short-rains production…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 48 of 1997 Date: 28 November 1997 This report includes: A) Democratic People's Republic of Korea B) Afghanistan C) Iraq D) East Africa I -…

KENYA UNHCR will begin airlifting diesel fuel to the three refugee camps affected by floods in the Dadaab region of in north-eastern Kenya on Saturday. The fuel will be used to pump fresh water in the camps that have…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS Floods have hit a second refugee camp for Somalis in northeastern Kenya, according to the United Nations refugee agency. The Spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told reporters in Geneva that on Monday, flood waters entered…

Flood waters continue to rise around the mainly Somali refugee camps at Dadaab, Kenya. On Monday, flood waters entered Dagahaley camp, flooding out 5,000 of the camp's 40,000 refugees. This brings to two the number of refugee camps hit…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN background brief on flooding in eastern Africa 25 November 1997 East Africa has been lashed for several weeks by torrential…

The Government recently declared the flooding in the Coast Province a national disaster. The usually slow government machinery quickly went into first gear. Reconstruction of damaged infrastracture has already begun. Any right-thinking Kenyan instantly smells a rat. Why the quick action…

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) - Relief agencies in north-eastern Kenya have appealed for emergency aid for some 120,000 refugees marooned in flooded camps in the area, the Kenya News Agency reported Sunday. A spokesman for the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees,…

DATE=11/23/97 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-223119 TITLE=KENYA FLOOD REFUGEES (L ONLY) BYLINE=SONYA LAURENCE GREEN DATELINE=NAIROBI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: REFUGEE CAMPS IN NORTHERN KENYA ARE AWASH IN MUDDY, CONTAMINATED WATER AFTER HEAVY RAINS POUNDED THE AREA AND THE TANA RIVER LEFT ITS BANKS. SONYA LAURENCE GREEN REPORTS…