Kenya

Mutobo is a half-way house between war and peace, where about 9,000 ex-combatants have been processed since 2001 as part of the reintegration of armed militia members from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) […]

Am heutigen Dienstag besuchte der Bundesminister für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, Dirk Niebel, auf seiner Keniareise das Flüchtlingslager Dadaab. Dirk Niebel: „Mir war es wichtig, einen eigenen Eindruck von der aktuellen Situation zu gewinnen. Das […]

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says the drought in Somalia should be a wake-up call to all African leaders that “we may have solved our problems; but certainly we still have problems”. Describing the drought […]

About 1,300 Somalis are arriving at the Dadaab refugee camps in northeast Kenya every day. The help they are seeking – refuge from a severe drought and the effects of years of conflict – is […]

Belonging to the “wrong” ethnic group in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province cost Milka Wanjiru her home, her farm and her shop. After elections in 1992, the mother of 11 lost it all to looters and […]

The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa could increase sharply in coming months due to below-average rainfall and high food and fuel prices, say aid workers. Moreover, funding shortfalls, drought […]

In September 2007, IRIN released its award-winning film Slum Survivors, a 45-minute documentary about five people living in the Kenyan slum of Kibera. Slum Survivors has since become one of our most acclaimed and widely […]

According to a joint report issued by the World Bank and the Central Bank of Kenya on remittances, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) trails other regions in its annual share of remittances and that it should embark […]