Reports

Main Developments The fighting in Mogadishu, Gedo and parts of the Lower Juba regions continued to impact on civilians with approximately 23,600 displaced in March due to both conflict and drought. Of concern is that children were…

Government Closing Refugee Camps, Forcing People Back Into War-Zone (Nairobi, March 31, 2011) - Kenya should immediately stop deporting back to Somalia civilians fleeing the conflict there, Human Rights Watch said today. Kenya should allow humanitarian agencies to assist Somalis displaced…

30 March 2011 - Globally, there are an estimated 16 million injecting drug users, around 3 million of whom live with HIV. As a major route of HIV transmission in many countries, the use of contaminated injecting equipment contributes…

A cross-border peace forum intended to mend a growing divide between Kenya's Turkana and Southern Sudan's Toposa communities over diminishing resources has been organized by IOM and the Kenyan government as continued famine and drought devastate northern Kenya. The peace…

Vienna / Nairobi. 28 March 2011. The Executive Director of UNODC, Yury Fedotov, today met with several key Kenyan public officials to discuss ongoing and future work in the country and the region. "Kenya's role is pivotal in East…

The exceptionally poor performance of the short rains between October and December 2010 occurred after similarly poor long rains between March and June 2010 in the northern and north-eastern pastoral areas, and the south-eastern and coastal lowlands of Kenya. To…

IOM and Kenya's National AIDS Control Council are today opening a free health care clinic to assist vulnerable and often hard-to-reach mobile populations on the busy Kenyan-Ugandan border. The health centre, which is located in the heart of a trailer…

HIGHLIGHTS - Kenya Meteorological Department forecasts highly depressed Long Rains for North-Eastern Province - Drought conditions set to worsen for Mandera, Wajir and Garissa - Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation and Ministry of Health scale up Nutrition interventions -…

1.0 Executive Summary and Key Recommendations 1.1 Summary of Key findings Deterioration in food security across pastoral and marginal agricultural livelihoods An estimated 2.4 million persons, up from 1.6 million in August 2010, require food and non-food assistance for the next six…

Rome - 24 March - With nearly 2.4 million poor people in Kenya's rural communities struggling to get enough to eat, Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), arrives in Nairobi on 26 March…