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By Michael Hill A CRS team is on the ground in the eastern Kenyan town of Dadaab, home to a sprawling refugee camp that sees some 1,300 people arrive each day from drought-stricken Somalia, only one of…
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The review of the Kenya 2011+ Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan coincides with the Government of Kenya’s 30 May declaration on drought being a national disaster. The grave combination of drought-induced crop failure due to climate variability, livestock…
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The Government would like to clarify on several issues pertaining to the flow of refugees in our country: 1.Kenya hosts more refugees than any other country. The Kenyan Government has never turned away any refugee and we…
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Today, the United Nations declared famine in parts of the Horn of Africa -- resulting from the past few years of unpredictable weather and extreme drought. There hasn't been an official famine since 1984-85. One of the…
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18 July 2010: $8.4 million is being provided by the CERF to address the humanitarian consequences of severe drought in northern, eastern and south-eastern parts of Kenya. Some three million Kenyans are estimated to have been…
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Plan is launching a $15 million aid operation for families in Kenya affected by the East Africa drought. Plan’s emergency teams will distribute food and water to almost a quarter of a million children and expectant…
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Australian Red Cross has launched an appeal to provide emergency assistance to drought-ravaged communities in Kenya and Somalia. It is estimated that 2.4 million people in Somalia - 32 per cent of the population - require humanitarian…
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The Drought situation of Wajir County is in the ALARM stage on a worsening trend and deteriorating towards emergency level, with the county experiencing the worst drought effects that have not occurred in the county’s history…
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The crisis at a glance • 10.7 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance • Extremely high levels of child malnutrition are being reported in multiple locations • Relief operations need to be scaled up, as access…
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DADAAB, 13 July 2011 (IRIN) - About 1,300 Somalis are arriving at the Dadaab refugee camps in northeast Kenya every day. The help they are seeking - refuge from a severe drought and the effects of…
