Reports

By Joyce Chimbi NAIROBI, Mar 27 2023 (IPS) - Elizabeth Njoroge recounts her poverty-stricken upbringing in Ting’ang’a village in the Central part of Kenya, growing up on a diet heavy on Amaranth and pumpkin. The 45-year-old speaks about…

HIGHLIGHTS Kenya is experiencing severe drought due to five consecutive failed rain seasons with 4.42 million people facing acute food insecurity by February 2023, up from 3.5 million in July 2022. A total of 1,6673 (28%) of the…

HIGHLIGHTS Kenya is experiencing severe drought due to five consecutive failed rain seasons with 4.4 million1 people facing acute food insecurity by February 2023, up from 3.5 million in July 2022. 4,8212 confirmed Cholera cases and 85 deaths…

Heavy rainfall has been affecting northern and southern Kenya (in particular the Greater Nairobi Metropolitan area) since 22 March causing floods that have resulted in casualties and damage. Media report, as of 27 March, one fatality, one…

Elections take place in Kenya every five years. However, electoral processes have often been marred by violence, including sexual and gender-based violence. Such violence impedes the exercise of political rights and has long-lasting detrimental impacts on…

DAADAB, Kenya -- Incessant hunger and chronic insecurity forced Rukia Yaroow Ali and her nine children to abandon their home in Jilib, Somalia, to seek shelter at the Hagadera refugee camp in northern Kenya. "My husband was…

Turkana County, Northern Kenya, 20 March 2023 – “When I was a child, everything was different. There was plenty of grass, water, and animals. But now there is nothing except for drought,” explains Ekwuon. Ekwuon has witnessed…

NAIROBI – Kenyan Deputy President H.E. Rigathi Gachagua on Monday 20 March 2023, led a delegation of ambassadors and donor representatives at the Port of Mombasa in receiving 41,000 metric tons (mt) of relief food for…

By Rogers Ndichu and Misiani Zachary Abstract This review article provides an analysis of cyclic variations in East Africa that indicate a catastrophic famine event. Using historical and contemporary data, we examine the cycles of drought and famine…

Executive summary Refugee-led organisations (RLOs) in East Africa play a vital role in meeting community needs. To date, however, there is a lack of rigorous evidence on the impact of RLO responses on displaced communities, how RLOs are…