Reports

UN-HABITAT has launched a project in the Lake Victoria region to help accelerate access to improved sanitation for poor women and vulnerable households through a micro credit/revolving fund scheme. In Kenya, the project, which was launched from 8 - 12 December…

HIGHLIGHTS - Country grapples with outbreak of fire related incidences - Challenges remain in the creation of a special tribunal - Food insecurity remains critical in parts of eastern, coastal and northeastern province as Government outlines funding needs and launches labour intensive projects…

By Anne Wanjiru, Titus Mung'ou and Andrei Engstrand-Neacsu in Yatta and Kiboko As many as ten million people are on the brink of starvation due to a severe drought affecting Eastern Kenya, as well as the Horn of Africa. Destitute…

KENYA DROUGHT The Kenya Red Cross Society's mission is to build capacity and respond with vigor, compassion and empathy to the victims of disaster and those at risk, in the most effective and efficient manner. It works closely with the…

Dadaab, Kenya: 12 Feb 2009 - One confirmed case of cholera and 14 suspected cases have been reported in the Hagadera refugee camp in Dadaab, western Kenya - numbers that have the potential to spike as Somali refugees inundate…

Bonn, 27.01.2009. Welthungerhilfe has released 100,000 euros of emergency aid for victims of the drought in Kenya. The money will primarily be used to provide more than 20,000 people with clean drinking water. In the Kajiado District in the…

The Kenya Red Cross Society's mission is to build capacity and respond with vigor, compassion and empathy to the victims of disaster and those at risk, in the most effective and efficient manner. It works closely with the International…

HIGHLIGHTS - A combination of poor rains and high prices has resulted in critical food insecurity. - The Government has launched an appeal for Ksh. 37 billion to assist ten million persons considered food insecure - Precarious insecurity in neighbouring Somalia pushes…

The Kenya Red Cross Society's mission is to build capacity and respond with vigor, compassion and empathy to the victims of disaster and those at risk, in the most effective and efficient manner. It works closely with the International…

ECHO/KEN/BUD/2009/01000 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No.1257/96 of 20 June 1996 concerning humanitarian aid(1), and in particular Article 2 and Article 15 (1)…