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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

Two weeks ago President Mwai Kibaki ordered the closure of the camps, which at the peak of the violence were home to around 500,000 people. But more than a year-and-a-half later there are Kenyans still living in tents some of whom are reluctant to leave. Original article

Source: UNHCR More than 50,000 Somali civilians have fled to Kenya since the beginning of the year to escape continuing fighting and a prolonged drought.

Source: UNHCR UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited the worlds largest refugee camp overcrowded with 285,000 refugees on the Kenyan ? Somali border on Saturday.

Source: UNHCR We have started relocating the first of some 12,900 Somali refugees from the overcrowded Dadaab refugee complex in north-eastern Kenya to Kakuma camp in the north-west. The first 311 refugees arrived ...

Source: UNHCR High Commissioner António Guterres visits sprawling, overcrowded Dadaab camp complex in Kenya and draws attention to the Somali refugee crisis.

DADAAB, KENYA 01 Jul 2009

The International Rescue Committee is launching an emergency measles vaccination campaign targeting thousands of refugee children in Hagadera camp to contain an outbreak of the disease at the massively overcrowded site.

The IRC has confirmed six cases of the highly contagious virus and suspects 19 other cases in Hagadera, one of three overflowing camps in Dadaab, eastern Kenya

Date: 17 Jul 2009
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

The International Rescue Committee is launching an emergency measles vaccination campaign targeting thousands of refugee children in Hagadera camp to contain an outbreak of the disease at the massively overcrowded site.

Date: 01 Jul 2009
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Date: 29 Jun 2009
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks