Reports

An estimated 150,000 people from pastoral communities, including students and teachers from six schools based in Kenya’s Baringo, Kiambu West and Laikipia districts, are to benefit from a €690,000 grant from the African Water Facility (AWF)…

07/08/2012 – Last week, a short flare-up of violence between two ethnic groups in Ethiopia resulted in the temporary displacement of 20,000 people into neighbouring Kenya. The Kenyan Red Cross reported 18 deaths. Land issues are…

“Three years back, the school would spend 400 shillings per day (US $5) to buy water and absenteeism was high,” says John Masime the principal at Mariwa mixed secondary school in Kisumu. With great need for…

KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya, 6 August (UNHCR) – Kakuma Refugee Camp has surpassed its capacity of 100,000 residents, creating serious concerns as more refugees continue to arrive. By the end of July the population of the camp…

A Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) rapid assessment of the fierce fighting around the Ethiopian Moyale border and its environs since Thursday 26th July 2012, has revealed that the conflict has caused deaths, injuries and loss…

WAJIR, 26 July 2012 (IRIN) - Parts of northeastern Kenya, which are experiencing an early drought after poor March-May long rains, have seen deadly clashes over water and pasture, say officials. Migrant pastoralists from parts of the…

The last time I came to Dadaab was in July 2011. Famine had just been declared in Somalia and refugees were pouring into the camp at a rate of 1500 people per day. People had walked…

Challenges to achieving food security—climate-related shocks, high food prices, and localized conflict—have remained prevalent in Kenya in the first half of 2012. The number of refugees hosted in the country has continued to increase (although at…

KANCHARA, WAJIR-SOUTH, 18 July 2012 (IRIN) - Habiba Ugas, a mother of five whose husband was killed in violent clashes in the central Kenyan town of Isiolo in April, is one of a number of internally…

One year since the launch of Oxfam’s appeal for the food crisis in the Horn of Africa, Polycarp Otieno returns to Wajir in northeastern Kenya, to see how Oxfam’s response is helping communities to recover: At 7pm,…