Reports

NAIROBI : The World Food Programme warned today that unless donors provide new funding it will be forced to halt emergency airlifts and airdrops of food and other vital supplies to 1.1 million people cut off by floodwaters in…

By Manoah Esipisu NAIROBI, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The long-term cost of heavy unseasonal rains blamed on the El Nino weather phenomenon was brought home to Kenyans on Monday with the agriculture ministry forecasting massive output declines…

Press Release WHO/13 Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is widely distributed in Kenya and Somalia, primarily in animals but also in humans, World Health Organization (WHO) officials investigating the disease outbreak in the two countries say. The estimated number of deaths…

WFP EMERGENCY REPORT Issued weekly by the United Nations World Food Programme Report No. 04 of 1998 This report includes: A) East Africa I: Impact of East Africa floods on regional operations, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda…

Three months of rain related to the El Ni=A4o phenomenon have affected an estimated 300,000 people in Northern Kenya. Thirteen members of Kenya's Parliament from the northern areas have sent out a passionate appeal warning that the region is…

Weekly News With efforts to contain Rift Valley Fever severely hampered by limited logistical resources, the disease continues to spread. It has claimed more than 450 lives in Kenya's flood-stricken North Eastern Province and in southern Somalia. Medical personnel also…

DAILY HIGHLIGHTS The United Nations food agency is unable to truck supplies to key flood-affected regions of Kenya, according to a new situation report of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA). Torrential rains have damaged Kenya's infrastructure, severing road links…

DHAGVA - 98/0142 Present Situation 1. Much of Kenya has received extraordinarily heavy rain since 10 January. Many locations have received several times their long term mean for January. This is exacerbating the situation in many districts, including Tana River, Garissa,…

The Disaster In mid-December reports of an outbreak of a fatal, hemorrhagic fever were received from Garissa and Wajir Districts of North-eastern Province (NEP) in Kenya and from seven villages in southern Somalia. Initial case reports described clinical signs of…

Revised 20 Jan 1998 An outbreak of hemorrhagic fever is occurring in remote parts of northeastern Kenya and southern Somalia following exceptionally heavy rains. Recent WHO reports indicate that new cases are appearing in Kenya's North-Eastern, Eastern, Rift Valley, and…