VOA July 17, 2011 Photo: AP Abdi Nur Ibrahim, 1, who is being treated for severe malnutrition, is cared for by his older sister at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Dagahaley Camp, outside Dadaab, Kenya, July 15, 2011.Kenyan and British officials met in Nairobi Sunday to discuss the drought that has sent thousands of [...]
Category Archives: Kenya
WHO Has Growing Fear Of Disease Outbreaks In Horn Of Africa
July 19, 2011 – 9:08 pm
VOA July 15, 2011 Lisa Schlein Photo AP Thousands of people have arrived in Mogadishu over the past two weeks seeking assistance and the number is increasing by the day, due to lack of water and food, July 12, 2011.The World Health Organization is warning of an increased risk of disease outbreaks in the Horn [...]
Ethiopia Moves Forward with Massive Nile Dam Project
July 15, 2011 – 10:22 am
National Geographic, US July 13, 2011 Ker Than Photograph by George Steinmetz, National Geographic Tisisat Falls in Amhara, Ethiopia. This article is part of a special National Geographic news series and initiative on global water issues. Ethiopia has announced that it will construct a controversial multibillion-dollar Nile River dam that could supply more than 5,000 [...]
UN: Somalia drought is worst humanitarian crisis
July 11, 2011 – 8:32 am
AP July 10, 2011 MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED and LUC VAN KEMENADE DADAAB, Kenya — The head of the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday that drought-ridden Somalia is the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world after meeting with refugees who endured unspeakable hardship to reach the world’s largest refugee camp. The Kenyan camp, Dadaab, is overflowing [...]
War, drought compounding Somalia exodus
July 11, 2011 – 8:21 am
Reuters July 9, 2011 Aaron Maasho * More than 1,000 fleeing to Ethiopia everyday * U.N. says camps are crowded, with more than 100,000 * Drought also forcing them to flee DOLO ADO, Ethiopia – Rasheed Hassan had to walk out on his son when he fled war in his native Somalia to go to [...]
Bloc calls for AU, UN sanctions on Eritrea mining
July 5, 2011 – 7:52 am
Reuters July 4, 2011 Aaron Maasho * IGAD says Eritrea supporting rebels * Eritrea denies charges ADDIS ABABA – An East African bloc on Monday asked the United Nations and the African Union to impose sanctions on Eritrea’s booming mining sector for its alleged support of rebels seeking to overthrow Somalia’s government. AU peacekeepers have [...]
Donor fatigue hits Horn of Africa aid efforts
July 2, 2011 – 9:44 am
Reuters July 1, 2011 Beatrice Gachenge UNICEF faces $250 mln gap for humanitarian assistance NAIROBI – Donor fatigue following recurrent humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa has left UNICEF short of aid funds. The number of refugees in need of assistance has risen in countries affected by a severe drought, including Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti [...]
Somalia Appeals for International Assistance as Drought Worsens
July 2, 2011 – 9:32 am
VOA June 30, 2011 Mike Onyiego Photo: AP (file photo) Somali children at UN registration center in Dagahaley, Northeastern Kenya Somalia’s Council of Ministers issued a statement Thursday calling for dramatic intervention on the part of the United Nations and the international community to prevent the country’s current drought from becoming a major catastrophe. Somali [...]
Ethiopia on the spot over trade barriers
July 2, 2011 – 9:29 am
Nation, Kenya June 30, 2011 JEVANS NYABIAGE File Head of states at a past Comesa meeting. The organisation wants the trade wrangle between Kenya and Ethiopia resolved as soon as possible. A delegation is meeting in Nairobi to woo Ethiopia to tone down its restrictive trade practices, which have lately attracted uproar from the Common [...]
Somalia fleeing to Kenya in large numbers
June 29, 2011 – 9:15 pm
BBC June 28, 2011 Dadaab One-year-old Hussein and his mother in the giant Dadaab refugee camp War and drought in Somalia are leading an unprecedented number of people to flee across the border into Kenya, an aid agency says. Save the Children is reporting that every day, about 1,300 people – at least 800 of [...]