Reports

NAIROBI, 14 February (IRIN) - The German aid agency has expressed concern over insecurity in Kenya following the weekend murder of one of its field staff members in Nairobi, and has urged the authorities to improve security. Werner von der…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] NAIROBI, 7 February (IRIN) - Free and compulsory primary education for Kenyan children was one of the key pre-election promises that led the current government, led by President Mwai…

NAIROBI, 6 February (IRIN) - The first Somali Bantu refugees will probably reach the United States this spring after the US agreed to take them in, according to a report released by the US State Department on Wednesday. The 12,000…

NAIROBI, 4 February (IRIN) - The Kenyan government is reviewing its policy of keeping the country's refugee population in camps in the north of the country. "The indications from the government [Ministry of Home Affairs] are that they will review…

(Nairobi - 31 January) UNICEF today handed over the first consignment of school supplies to the government of Kenya - just two weeks after it pledged the US 2.5. million dollar contribution to support the country's initiative to provide…

Overview The new Government has moved steadily towards addressing corruption in the country. The war against corruption intensified with t he arraignment in court of a High Court Judge on forgery and receiving money on false pretence. Earlier, the government…

NAIROBI, 28 January (IRIN) - A total of 358 Ugandans based in Kenya have registered with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to take advantage of an amnesty offered by the Ugandan government to former rebels. By Monday evening, a…

DADAAB, Kenya (UNHCR) -- Since she fled her war-torn homeland more than 10 years ago, Somali refugee Zahara Mohamed Ali has learned a brutal lesson: "When you are a refugee, you become subject to all kinds of violence. You…

NAIROBI, 23 January (IRIN) - Competing food crises on the African continent, leading to over-stretched donor funding, have led to food rations being cut in Kenya's two main refugee camps. Over 220,000 people in Kenya's northern camps of Kakuma (in…

By Helen Nyambura KAKUMA, Kenya, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of refugees living in camps in Kenya risk going hungry because donors are diverting food to other parts of Africa, U.N. aid workers said this week. The United…