Reports

Millions of people across East Africa are facing a food crisis. Affected countries are Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Tanzania The situation is worse than it has been for many years. Oxfam's work In Kenya we have been responding for many months. We are…

Pamela Ataa's story is an all too common one in Turkana, northern Kenya. She speaks to Oxfam's Jane Beesley about the desperate position that she, and many other pastoralists are now in. Pamela is sitting amongst a group of women…

La Croix-Rouge française, alarmée par la crise alimentaire au Kenya, et solidaire de la Croix-Rouge kenyane, lance un appel à la générosité du public Préoccupée par la situation au Kenya, la Croix-Rouge française, aux côtés de la Croix-Rouge kenyane, a…

The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers are active in over 183 countries. For more information: www.ifrc.org In…

"In the past, there were droughts that would affect my sheep but not my cows, or my cows but not my sheep but this drought has killed everything," explains Moses Ole Yiare, a farmer in Kajiado District, southern Kenya. Yiare…

By Caroline Waterman, ACT International Mandera district, northeastern Kenya, March 10, 2006--Dirib Mandera's baby had not had any water to drink all day. When the water tankers arrived, before she could give the baby anything to drink, she first had…

As the Islamic Relief tanker pulls up, villagers form orderly queues -- they have been waiting patiently in the desert sun. The tanker is delivering 10,000 litres of water which will reach over 3,000 people in the drought-hit Mandera district of…

The number of people affected by prolonged droughts in nine countries in East Africa has double since January, despite a recent week of rain. Over 11 million people across Eritrea, Djibouti, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Somaliland, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and…

Kenyan farmer: "I have never seen anything like this before" Kajiado, southern Kenya -- Dead animals lie rotting in the fields, the farms, the markets and along the roads. The cattle farmers of Kajiado in southern Kenya have lost everything to…

In response to the current situation in Kenya, Concern is operating in 3 areas; Marsabit and Moyale in the North, Kajiado near the capital Nairobi and Malindi in the Southern Coastal Region. We have 5 main interventions. 1) Nutrition and…