Reports

KYUSO, Feb 28, 2009 - Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka today officially launched the Wikithuki cooperative Irrigation Scheme in his Constituency, Kyuso district. Mr. Musyoka said the project would go along way in assisting the residents be self reliant in…

February 15th to 20th 2009 Mumbai & Osmanabad, Maharashtra, India "I am confident with what I have learnt. Before I though that HIV was something that would lead to death. Now as a community leader, I feel like I…

KENYA DROUGHT The Kenya Red Cross Society's mission is to build capacity and respond with vigor, compassion and empathy to the victims of disaster and those at risk, in the most effective and efficient manner. It works closely with the…

Like almost all workers, staff in the hospital at Ifo refugee camp amid the semi-desert of northeastern Kenya have their good and their bad days. But in the fight against child malnutrition, they say the good outnumber the bad. "Nutrition…

NAIROBI, 27 February 2009 (PLUSNEWS) - Exactly one year ago, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and his erstwhile rival for the presidency, Raila Odinga, signed an agreement that created a government of national unity, ending two months of election-related violence during…

NAIROBI, 27 February 2009 (IRIN) - Pamela (not her real name), a resident of Kenya's largest slum, Kibera, continues to experience pain and discomfort one year after she was gang-raped when election-related violence erupted in the country. "The saddest part…

By Tom Kirkwood EREMIT, Kenya, Feb 26 (Reuters) - To catch a ride to Nairobi Michael Ole Sayo, a 24-year-old Maasai living in Kenya's Rift Valley, negotiates fields of volcanic rock boulders, spiky thorn trees, and lions. These days, however, the…

JOHANNESBOURG, 25 février 2009 (IRIN) - Karamoja, région semi-aride du nord-est de l'Ouganda, est en crise ; à l'origine de cette crise : un cocktail explosif dont les principaux ingrédients sont les conséquences du changement climatique - 14 sécheresses en…

NAIROBI, Feb 25, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- The Kenyan government and the UN health agency on Wednesday declared a polio outbreak and sounded a warning over its spread. The country's health ministry and the World Health Organization…

I conducted a fact-finding mission to Kenya from 16-25 February 2009. The aim of my visit was to investigate allegations of unlawful killings, and I focused on three issues of critical importance to the people of Kenya: killings by…