Reports

Nairobi-- Two U.S. C-130 Hercules aircraft flew their first mission yesterday from Mombasa to assist the United Nations World Food Programme in its Kenya flood emergency operation. WFP welcomed the U.S. contribution of planes which airdropped 16 tons of maize…

Nairobi -- The United Nations World Food Programme warned today that food rations for 125,000 refugees in north eastern Kenya's Dadaab camps will be cut by half in two weeks' time if urgent funding for the Dadaab airbridge is…

REGIONAL ISSUES Kampala summit for development prioritisation: Thirteen African leaders including heads of states held a summit meeting in Kampala, Uganda, on 22/23 January. The summit, called "leaders forum", was the first in a planned series and was also attended by…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 07 of 1998 Date: 13 February 1998 This report includes: A) Sierra Leone B) Afghanistan C) East Africa: Regional, Kenya and Somalia D) Iraq E) El Nino…

PR 98/6 Rome, February 10 -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today that the combined effects of flooding and livestock diseases have killed tens of thousands of animals in northeastern Kenya and southern Somalia, appealing for…

NAIROBI -- The UN World Food Programme appealed today for US$17 million to maintain deliveries of food and other vital supplies to more than one million flood victims in Kenya and Somalia. The appeal to the international donor community followed…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 06 of 1998 Date: 06 February 1998 This report includes: A) West Africa: Sierra Leone and Liberia B) East Africa I: Somalia and Kenya Floods C) East Africa…

By Manoah Esipisu NAIROBI, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Kenyan AgricultureMinister Musalia Mudavadi said on Thursday thecountry will have to make sacrifices and possibly paymore taxes because of crop damage caused by threemonths of unseasonable rain. Mudavadi told Reuters Television in an interviewthat…

OVERVIEW Since October 1997, exceptionally heavy rains associated with the El Niño phenomenon have caused havoc in most parts of eastern Africa, with severe floods seriously affecting food production and distribution. The floods have also caused extensive damage to crops, both…

ICRC NEWS 05 ** SHORT MENU.... KENYA: RED CROSS RELIEF AID IN RIFT VALLEY: For the past eight months, the Pokot and Marakwet districts in Kenya's Rift Valley have been rocked by violence between the two resident ethnic groups. Inter-tribal cattle-rustling…