Reports

350,000 Internally Displaced People reported in Kenya The Global IDP Database of the Norwegian Refugee Council has now updated its country profile on internal displacement in Kenya. A summary is presented below. The Database and the country profile can be accessed…

The National Flood Disaster Committee has appealed for the urgent supply of food items for distribution to 21,000 flood-displaced people living in 12 makeshift camps in Budalang'i Division, an area served by World Vision's Bunyala Area Development Programme (ADP). Food…

Refugees International's Director of Advocacy Larry Thompson and Senior Advocate Michelle Brown are presently on an assessment mission to Kenya and Uganda. In Kenya, the RI team plans to visit Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps. Kakuma and Dadaab are among…

Rev. Ray Buchanan will be spending 15 days traveling through Central and Southern Africa in September. The main focus of the trip is to monitor hunger relief projects supported by Stop Hunger Now and to assess new program opportunities.…

World Vision Kenya has provided 1,000 gunny bags to help repair the dyke along River Nzoia in Budalang'i Division, Western Province, where 21,000 people have been displaced by floods following the collapse of the dyke at a number of…

Severe flooding in April and May caused a high incidence of malaria and waterborne disease in large portions of Kenya. Crops in the affected areas were also washed out. Church World Service worked with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kenya…

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 29 (UNHCR) - A group of former dissidents returned home Thursday from Uganda to Kenya, a country better known as a place of asylum than a source of refugees. The 106 people are mostly refugees who were…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 27 August (IRIN) - "The man couldn't have died at a better time!" The remark may sound callous but respected political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi is quick to…

Appeal Target: US$ 793,073Balance Requested from ACT Network: US$ 707,999 Geneva, 25 August 2003 Dear Colleagues, The response to this appeal has been extremely poor, to the extent that our members could not provide very meaningful assistance to the…

Almost two months after the attack in front of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) compound in Mandera (northeast Kenya), two of the people that resulted wounded are still in hospital. One of the victims of the attack has recently…