Reports

A fire season has been taking place in Kenya since early January 2019 due to a long dry spell. Severe forest fires have been declared in the vicinity of Mount Kenya last week and are now…

Executive Summary The Accumulation of Risk in the Built Environment Kenya is an emerging middle income country with a growing share of its population living in urban areas. The country is at a relatively early stage of urbanisation,…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report contains a review of international humanitarian assistance at the time of disasters as governed by the legal and policy framework in place in Kenya. It has also reviewed the existing framework and system…

Following the fire incident that was reported yesterday evening on 10th March 2015 in Mukuru Kayaba slum that left 693 households homeless with 8 persons injured (5 critical and 3 minor). Barely less than 24 hours…

Introduction 1.1 Background Kenya has become increasingly predisposed to a variety of natural and man-made disasters including floods, drought, landslides, fires, HIV/ AIDS, terrorism among others. Disaster impacts cause enormous suffering including loss of life, disruption of livelihoods…

ISIOLO, 20 March 2012 (IRIN) - Wildfires have destroyed large tracts of grassland in northern Kenya, giving rise to fears of conflict between pastoralist communities amid an already serious food security crisis. "In the areas we have…

SITUATION: A gasoline pipeline explosion earlier this week (Monday, Sept. 12) in the Sinai district of Nairobi, Kenya, killed at least 96 persons, prompting renewed worries about the vulnerabilities of poor communities to hazards like unsafe…

Caritas Kenya is supporting survivors of a huge fire that devastated the Sinai slums in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 12 September. Over a hundred people were killed and a hundred more injured after a pipeline burst…

CHF 205,575 was allocated from the Federation’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) in replenishing non food items used in delivering immediate assistance to some 4,667 households affected by…

Press Release No.869 Geneva, 8 December 2009 (WMO) - The year 2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest on record since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World…