Reports

NAIROBI, 20 December (IRIN) - "If it does not rain soon, the remaining cattle will die," explained Tarayia Ntaro, a Maasai herdsman from Kajiado, a drought-hit area in Southern Kenya. Watching all but 20 of his 400 cattle die…

JOHANNESBURG, 20 December (IRIN) - A new report issued jointly by five UN agencies and the World Bank said this week that worsening HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria epidemics were not inevitable and could be controlled. The report entitled "Health:…

I'M beginning to realise the truth of that old phrase, 'It's a small world'. I certainly wasn't expecting to bump into anyone I knew while waiting to collect photos in a shopping centre in Nairobi, Kenya. I almost walked…

Tripoli, Libya - A Libyan cargo plane has departed Tripoli with several tonnes of food and drug supplies for drought victims in Kenya, Libyan officials said Friday. The Libyan Red Crescent and several other Libyan organisations are participating in the…

1. Review of Diminishing and Continuing Food Crises The prolonged period of heightened food insecurity is set to end, following the onset of the crucial 2000/01 short-rains season in the previously severely drought-affected marginal agricultural Provinces as…

The Government of Japan has decided to extend through the World Food Programme (WFP) a food aid of 800 million yen for afflicted persons in Kenya, who are facing a serious food shortage caused by drought. Notes to this…

News AFRICA: Red Cross looks to its own on HIV/AIDS issue The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has made a frank admission that it needs to do more in view of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in…

Geneva, 11 December 2000 Dear Colleagues, The implementing partners in Kakuma Refugee Camp situated in the Turkana district of North West Kenya are currently facing severe financial problems. Due largely to a funding crisis in the UNHCR, ACT member the Lutheran…

Nairobi, Kenya - Environmentalists and researchers have expressed alarm over desertification in Kenya, and called for urgent measures to address the problem. The group from the country's public universities identified weak land policies, increase in population and frequent droughts, as some…

Tervil Okoko Nairobi, Kenya - Over 25,000 people have fled the Wajir area of northern Kenya as fears of further attacks from Ethiopian militiamen mounted Monday, The People Daily newspaper reported Tuesday. Kenyans living along the Kenya-Ethiopia border areas of Dugo, Ogomdi…