Reports

NAIROBI, 10 June (IRIN) - The United Nations refugee agency is continuing to seek permission to move a group of Somali refugees, vulnerable and living in terrible conditions just a short distance from the fighting which drove them from…

SUMMARY Improved food security prospects in northern and eastern pastoral areas as floods subside, and environmental conditions are enhanced. However, rates of child malnutrition remain alarmingly high in parts of Mandera and Turkana Districts. Crop production prospects in arable districts vary sharply. A…

NAIROBI, Jun 10, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United Nations World Food Program (WFP), working in collaboration with the Kenya Army, has started providing food assistance to people cut off by floods in the country, the People Daily…

(New York, June 8, 2002) - Kenyan authorities are threatening to repatriate hundreds of Ethiopian and Somali refugees rounded up in a police sweep in Nairobi on May 30, 2002. If returned, many could face arbitrary arrest, torture, and…

World Vision has donated 1000 insecticide treated nets and 500 kilograms of plastic sheets worth $ 62,500 to assist people displaced by floods when Tana River, one of the largest rivers in Kenya, burst its banks three weeks ago. The…

NAIROBI, 4 June (IRIN) - Kenyan immigration authorities and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are making arrangements to facilitate the transportation of hundreds of refugees whom the police arrested last week in the…

Testimony of Jason Phillips, IRC, Kenya, before US Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing entitled "Half a Loaf? - The Impact of Excluding Surplus Commodities from America's Response to Global Hunger" Jason Phillips,…

In arid and dusty northwestern Kenya, the lives of tens of thousands of refugees who sought safety at the Kakuma Refugee Camp, are once again being threatened. This time the cause is food scarcity. Kakuma, now 10-years old, is home…

NAIROBI, 4 June (IRIN) - The Kenyan government and the World Food Programme (WFP) have jointly sent emergency food aid to some 47,000 residents of Tana River District, eastern Kenya, who have been cut off by heavy rains that…

General Situation Heavy rains fell over many parts of Kenya during May causing flooding and landslides. More than 40 people were killed and it is reported that up to150,000 people were made homeless as a result of the rains. Road…