Reports

Release No. IFAD/2001/10 Rome, 27 February 2001. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide a loan of 10.91 million dollars on highly concessional terms to finance the newly approved IFAD-initiated Central Dry Area Smallholder and Community Services Development…

At least 28 dead in typhoid, malaria outbreaks At least 28 people have died and 233 others are in hospital following a typhoid and malaria outbreak in Embu district, Central province. Of the dead, nine were inmates at a local…

Both projects undertaken by The Salvation Army in Kenya - the Nakuru District emergency feeding programme and the countrywide distribution of Unimix to pre-school children - are on schedule. All seven administrative divisions have now had two food distributions and…

News AFRICA: Annan urges greater effort on AIDS In a 29-page report released on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called the AIDS epidemic "the most formidable development challenge of our time". The report, which called on industrial countries to increase their financial…

Dar es Salaam - The Kenyan government has barred Tanzanian politicians and government officials from visiting Zanzibari refugees at a camp in the country's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa. Reports from Mombasa say the decision was taken to stop Tanzanian…

This is the first issue of a humanitarian update, which will be produced on a regular basis by OCHA KENYA. The purpose is to share with all the partners involved in humanitarian activities, information which is…

Nairobi, Kenya - Plus de 80.000 enfants kenyans sont menacés de mourir de malnutrition ainsi que d'autres maladies dues à des carences alimentaires, avertit l'Organisation des Nations Unies, qui invoque comme cause principale la sécheresse prolongée sévissant dans le pays. La…

By Simon Denyer WAJIR, Kenya (Reuters) - A dead cow rots slowly on the parched red sands of northern Kenya. Not far away, a woman sits listlessly on a thin mattress in a feeding centre in the town of Wajir…

General Situation Life returned to normal in Zanzibar after 4 days of violence between 25 and 28 January 2001. Events escalated when the government banned demonstrations organized by the Civic United Front (CUF) to demand a re-run of last October's…

By Caroline Hurford in Nairobi Three successive seasons of poor rainfall in parts of Kenya have resulted in dismal harvests. The effect on communities whose main livelihoods are agriculture and livestock has been devastating. The persistent drought places Kenya second…