Reports

What’s new? A protracted drought in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating land use conflict in the north of Kenya’s Rift Valley region. Longstanding tensions between herders and landowners have led to increasingly organised and violent attacks,…

What happened, where and when? The current outbreak of cholera started on 19th October with its origin being traced to a wedding festival in Kiambu County which later spread across Kiambu (31), Nairobi (17), Murang’a (1), Kajiado (2),…

CONTEXT Description of the event and location The 2023 Long Rains started earlier than expected with some several parts of the county receiving good amounts of rain contrary to weather forecast released by the Meteorological Department which indicated…

Somalia, Mogadishu, April 12, 2023 — Zainab Mohammed, 38 a Somali refugee mother of five, who fled starvation in her homeland Somalia, to Dadaab camp in Kenya stares at her kitchen at Iftar, the time…

1. Drought Situation Overview Despite the reported rains in most parts of the country in the last Dekad of March, the rains are yet to impact on production systems. The drought situation thus remains critical in twenty-two…

HIGHLIGHTS By February 2023, 4.4 million people are acutely food insecure due to drought and 970,214 children 0-59 months require treatment for malnutrition (including 242,567 severely wasted) up from 3.5 million and 884,000 respectively in July 2022 Flash…

Description of the Event What happened, where and when? The March April May season started this year with heavier than usual rains bringing floods, flash floods across the northern and southern parts of the country. At least 12…

BACKGROUND Since the Government of Kenya (GoK) declared a drought emergency in September 2021, the situation has been deteriorating. According to the appeal of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) published…

Drought Situation & EW Phase Classification Rainfall was experienced in several parts of the county during the last two weeks of the month. Denuded rangelands are responding very slow as the surface runoff resulted to flash floods…

Drought Situation & EW Phase Classification Biophysical Indicators  Average rainfall was received in all parts of the county during the month under review.  Vegetation condition: the current three-month Vegetation Condition index for the county indicated extreme…