Kenya
CCF has been working in Kenya since 1960. Approximately 39,000 children in 47 projects are receiving assistance from CCF. CCF-affiliated projects are located in both rural and urban areas. Some of the hardships experienced by Kenyans are drought, inaccessibility to…
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General Situation Kenyan scientists have unearthed fossils of a new genus of human ancestors in Turkana, northern Kenya. The fossils known as Kenyanthropus Platyops are believed to be around 3.5 million years old. In mid March some 58 persons were…
Kenya
As desperate families in Kenya continue their fervent prayers for rain, The Salvation Army's Famine Relief Programme is moving into its third phase. Since the beginning of the food distribution programme in September 2000 approximately 700 metric tonnes of…
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Nicodemus Odhiambo Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - As the sun crawls up the horizon on the island of Zanzibar each new day, Zanzibaris wake up only to find years of political acrimony still threatening to tear the island's social fabric…
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Nairobi, Kenya - Kenya police have been deployed to the Shimoni area in Kwale district on the Indian Ocean coast to track down over 500 Zanzibari refugees who have left the camp without informing the authorities. Police boss Dominic Mutevu…
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The 2001 main "long rains" cropping season has begun and the outlook is favourable due to forecasts of normal rainfall in major producing areas. However, the outlook in pastoral areas remains bleak with expectations of below normal rainfall. Harvesting of…
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A plan to allow settlement in protected woodlands draws allegations of political corruption. By Danna Harman Special to The Christian Science Monitor In its annual edition chronicling corruption, the popular Kenyan daily "The Standard" accuses the government this year of the usual…
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SHIMONI, Kenya, 23 March (IRIN) - The case of the 2,303 supporters of the Civic United Front (CUF) opposition party - most of them from the island of Pemba - who are currently being accommodated in the small town…
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SHIMONI, Kenya, 23 March (IRIN) - Singing and cheering, they usher in a new day the way they know best - swimming. The young and middle-aged male swimmers are some of the 2,303 asylum seekers from the isle of…
Kenya
Because of the efforts of The Salvation Army, nobody has died in Nakuru District,' was the reaction of a Senior District Officer to the Army's feeding programme in the Nakuru District of Kenya. For the past six months an intensive programme…