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From: Humanitarian organisations involved in delivering emergency relief in Kenya Drought-affected communities face return to hunger as food supplies fail NAIROBI - After years of drought, more than four million vulnerable people in Kenya are still facing starvation,…

News SOUTH AFRICA: Critics say AIDS report has achieved nothing The South African government on Thursday ran into a storm of criticism over the report of its controversial presidential AIDS advisory panel. Opposition parties condemned it as a waste of resources, while…

Tearfund is involved in a joint plea with aid agencies in Kenya for more food to be sent by the international community to the victims of drought. More than four million people in Kenya are still facing starvation, despite…

Silver Spring, Maryland -- The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) office located in Nairobi, Kenya, was broken into around 3:00 a.m. local time, Wednesday, April 4, 2001 (7 p.m. EDT, April 3). Armed gunmen ambushed and tied up…

[This report does necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 2 April (IRIN) - One of the major issues discussed at the international AIDS conference in Durban last year was the question of making anti-AIDS drugs available at…

Nairobi, Kenya - Health authorities in Kenya have issued a typhoid, cholera and malaria outbreak alert in the capital Nairobi and Nyanza Province following the onset of the current rains. In Nairobi medical officers assured that the ministry of health had…

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…

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…

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…

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…