Reports

GENEVA/NAIROBI/ DADAAB, Kenya 5 August 2011 - UNICEF is ramping up operations to meet the rising humanitarian needs of Somali children and families in the Dadaab refugee camps and surrounding host communities. With an influx of new…

05/08/2011 - Ten SOS co-workers are leaving on 5 July with a 20-ton truck loaded with food for the famine-hit area of Marsabit in northern Kenya to assist in SOS Children's Villages' relief operations there. As…

Prepared by: Amanda Lundy (alundy@oxfam.org.uk) 1. Key Issues Ifo II and Ifo III are now being referred to by the UN as the ‘Ifo extension’. What was previously Ifo II remains empty, however approximately 10,912 people have been…

Given the severity of current and projected food insecurity in the eastern Horn of Africa, FEWS NET began in July 2011 to release food security reports for Kenya every ten days. The objective of this enhanced…

United Methodist Missionary Paul Jeffrey recently returned from the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya, where he had traveled for ACT Alliance, as a member of the ACT Alliance Rapid Support Team, and for UMCOR. Read his…

IFO EXTENSION, Kenya, Aug 3 (UNHCR) – Henok Ochalla knows he is in for the race of his life. In order to begin to keep up with the vast influx of refugees that continue to arrive…

Nearly half the children surveyed in drought-hit northern Kenya had eaten no food for a whole day – with those separated from their parents faring even worse, new figures reveal. Children are begging by the roadside as…

1 August 2011: Plan has started delivering food to schools in Kenya’s drought-hit district of Machakos as part of its emergency school feeding programme which will reach 150,000 children across the country. For pupils in Liani community,…

Appeal target (current): CHF 2,056,046 Final Appeal coverage: 100% Appeal history: • A drought appeal was initially launched locally on 22 January 2009 for CHF 28,343,156 for 12 months to assist 2,391,481 beneficiaries. The appeal was later included in…

Living with hunger is sadly not a new experience for many children and families in Kenya but the brutal drought in East Africa is affecting every aspect of their lives. Plan staff delivering food, water and…