Shelter Centre

Source: IRIN Mariam* is one of about two dozen female refugees who have been subjected to sexual or domestic violence and who, in many cases shunned by their families, now live in a safe haven inside a camp in Kakuma, in northwest Kenya.

Source: IRIN Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed acute child malnutrition rates by doubling the provision of nutritional supplements, scaling up feeding and adopting community feeding programmes.

Source: IRIN Fatuma Mohammed, a refugee from Somalia, has been living with her six children in a camp in Kakuma, northwest Kenya, since March 2006. She told IRIN how her husband had tried to sell her then 14-year-old daughter into marriage.

Source: Reuters * Hundreds of thousands fleeing violence in Somalia * Kenyan border still "closed", police demand money By Jeremy Clarke NAIROBI, June 17 (Reuters) - Kenyan police are using violence ...

Date: 10 Jun 2010
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

May 17, 2010: "e;The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) is appealing for KShs 540 million to aid victims of floods that have wrecked havoc in different parts of the country, which have so far, claimed more than 70 lives.The long rains pounding the country...

Date: 04 May 2010
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Source: ECHO The European Commission has allocated 3 million euros in humanitarian aid for programmes to support refugees in Kenya's Dadaab camps.

Source: IRIN Clashes between government troops and Islamist insurgents have displaced more than 55,000 people from Mogadishu since the beginning of February, with many of them heading out of Somalia to neighbouring Kenya, according to the UN Refugee Agency.

"Please help me," said a desperate-looking woman coming towards me. "I have been raped and beaten several times in this camp but no one seems to hear me out," added the woman, Maria Mutetsi.

 

Mutetsi is a Rwandan widow who fled her country soon after the 1994 genocide that killed nearly one million Tutsi and moderate Hutus. She now lives in Kakuma refugee camp - a concentration of shacks on the sparsely populated plains of Africa's Great Rift Valley in northern Kenya.

 

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NAIROBI Thursday, February 11, 2010 (IRIN) - Kenya's failure to put in place a comprehensive disaster preparedness policy means its response to high-risk events such as droughts, floods, epidemics and major accidents tends to be slow, poorly coordinated and unnecessarily expensive, say specialists.

NAIROBI Friday, January 29, 2010 (IRIN) - Hundreds of pastoralists in northern Kenya will soon be better cushioned against the effects of recurrent drought thanks to a new index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) pilot programme in the upper eastern region of Marsabit. In the past 10 years, northern Kenya, where most people raise livestock for a living, has been hit by four severe droughts.

MARSABIT Monday, January 18, 2010 (IRIN) - This is the final part of our travelogue detailing the journey into the heart of northern Kenya by an IRIN reporter.

Source: IRIN Some 30,000 people are in urgent need of shelter, water, food and healthcare after heavy rainfall caused massive flooding, forcing thousands to leave their homes, according to the Kenya Red Cross Society. Roads and bridges have been either destroyed or severely damaged, cutting off villagers and leaving them without food or potable water, putting them at risk of cholera and other waterborne diseases.

Date: 04 Jan 2010
Source: Kenya Red Cross

IRC Press Release Malnutrition & Cholera in Kenya NAIROBI 16 Dec 2009

Malnutrition rates are soaring and cholera is spreading at a camp in northwestern Kenya that has recently experienced significant influxes of refugees and steep funding cuts, says the aid group the International Rescue Committee.

An IRC survey conducted last month at Kakuma camp found that 17% of children under the age of five, or around 1,800 of 10,460 children, are malnourished. That’s a 6% jump from last year.

Somali mother with her malnourished baby

International Rescue Committee (IRC) Nairobi. Dec. 16, 2009 — Malnutrition rates are soaring and cholera is spreading at a camp in northwestern Kenya that has recently experienced significant influxes of refugees and steep funding cuts, ...

Source: AlertNet

Date: 17 Nov 2009
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Date: 02 Nov 2009
Source: UN Country Team in Kenya