KENYA: UN warns of humanitarian crisis in Dadaab camps
NAIROBI, 17 November 2008 (IRIN) - An influx of asylum-seekers fleeing violence in Somalia to the refugee camps in Dadaab in north-eastern Kenya is causing overcrowding that could lead to a humanitarian crisis, UN officials have warned.
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KENYA: Heavy rains to affect hundreds of thousands
NAIROBI, 14 November 2008 (IRIN) - At least 300,000 people will require humanitarian aid in the next three months due to flash flooding and landslides, as well as continuing conflict, the Kenya Red Cross Society warned.
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KENYA: Joseph Maina: "For every 30kg of waste, they pay me 50 shillings"
NAIROBI, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - Joseph Maina rummages through waste at Boma, the nickname for the Dandora municipal dumpsite in the eastern part of Nairobi. He is looking for bottles, plastic containers, anything that shop owners and local companies will buy for recycling. He talked to IRIN about eking a living out of the 12 hectare rubbish site.
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KENYA: Drought forcing children to quit school
KILIFI, 12 November 2008 (IRIN) - Under normal circumstances, 14-year-old Paul Katana would be in school, but not today. Katana is instead flagging down vehicles along the Mombasa-Malindi highway, hoping to sell sacks of charcoal he is hawking.
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KENYA: Dumpsite threatens health and environment
NAIROBI, 11 November 2008 (IRIN) - The Dandora municipal waste site east of Nairobi continues to pose environmental and health risks even after a study recommended its closure, said specialists.
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KENYA: Thousands affected as floods submerge farms
NAIROBI, 5 November 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of people have been affected after flash floods submerged hundreds of hectares of farmland in the north-eastern region of Mandera about a month after floods displaced hundreds of families in the region.
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KENYA: Fatuma Mohammed: "We fear the sewage is getting mixed up with clean water"
NAIROBI, 4 November 2008 (IRIN) - Residents of Nairobi's Pumwani Estate, in the east of the capital, have lived with the foul smell of sewage for three years because a sewage line serving the estate bursts regularly, despite several attempts to repair it. One resident, Fatuma Mohammed, spoke to IRIN on 4 November about her anguish:
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KENYA: Hundreds injured in Mandera security operation - activist
ISIOLO, 31 October 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people have been injured in an operation aimed at restoring calm in the northeastern region of Mandera after a series of clan clashes left at least 20 people dead, a human rights activist has said.
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KENYA: Titus Kyalo: “I wanted to go into the forest and be aloneâ€
NAIROBI, 31 October 2008 (IRIN) - Titus Kyalo, 36, is receiving treatment in a tent in Kenyatta National Hospital for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and spoke to IRIN/PlusNews about his life since the diagnosis:
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KENYA: Isolation wards vital in TB fight
NAIROBI, 31 October 2008 (IRIN) - Five months after a specialised facility for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis patients was established at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, the lack of isolation wards is raising concerns.
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