Reports

DADAAB, Kenya, August 17 (UNHCR) - The first airlifts from Kenya to Somalia in two years left Dadaab this week, bringing dozens of Somali refugees home to the north after more than a decade in exile. The first group of…

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS National food security assessments have now been concluded in 26 of the districts most affected by drought. Significant deterioration in household food security is evident among the eastern pastoral households and the farming households…

NAIROBI - Kenya yesterday joined six other countries from the region in signing a Memorandum of Association that requires them to formulate legal, policy and management framework to support a joint approach to regional disaster management. The signing, under the…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 16 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - The first repatriation in two years of Somali refugees from Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya began on Tuesday when 43 refugees returned…

Israel's Magen David Adom, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry, last month donated two ambulances to the Kenyan Red Cross. Israel's Magen David Adom, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry, last month donated two ambulances to the Kenyan Red Cross. The emergency…

KAKUMA, KENYA - August 12, 2005 International Rescue Committee staff members have contained a serious outbreak of malaria in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp, home to some 90,000 refugees, 80 percent of whom are from neighboring Sudan. When the first signs…

HIGHLIGHTS - Rwanda long rains bean production outlook not optimistic. - Wholesale maize prices fall in selected terminal markets. - Uganda and Tanzania the main source of maize to Kenya. PRODUCTION AND HARVESTING Rwanda: Crop growing conditions in the year 2005…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 4 August (IRIN) - Britain announced on Wednesday that it would give Kenya an additional =A319.6 million (US $34.8 million) to provide 11 million new bednets…

The lives of 167,000 children in Kenya will be saved as a result of a new programme to provide treated anti-malaria bed nets, International Development Secretary Hilary Benn announced today. Mr Benn confirmed that a further =A319.6 million will be…

Food insecurity persists in the northeastern pastoral areas and the southeastern cropping lowlands With the 2005 long-rains season is over in all pastoral areas, it is now evident that the outcome of the season has varied widely…