UN Expert calls for renewed efforts to protect and assist Kenya’s internally displaced persons as essential to conflict resolution and peacebuilding

Source: United Nations Human Rights Council
Date: 27 May 2008

UN Expert calls for renewed efforts to protect and assist Kenya’s internally displaced persons as essential to conflict resolution and peacebuilding

Nairobi and Geneva, 27 May 2008 – “At this crucial beginning of recovery, special efforts by the government, humanitarian agencies and the donors are essential if the [...]

Kenya: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #14 (FY 2008)

Date: 28 May 2008

Kenya: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #14 (FY 200

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
Note: The last fact sheet was dated May 7, 2008.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
- The Government of Kenya (GOK) continues to facilitate the return of approximately 350,000 internally displaced [...]

KENYA: IDPs in Central reluctant to return to Rift Valley

KENYA: IDPs in Central reluctant to return to Rift Valley

Photo: Waweru Mugo/IRIN

Samuel Ngumo Kamau and wife, Teresia Muthoni, and their three-week old baby

RURING’U, 23 May 2008 (IRIN) - Samuel Ngumo Kamau cannot dispel the images of burning houses and Kenyans killing each other from his mind – a key factor in his [...]

CCP Meeting - 09-05-08

MINUTES OF THE CCP MEETING HELD AT OXFAM OFFICES, SHELTER AFRIQUE HOUSE ON 09/05/08
CORE GROUP MEMBERS PRESENT

1. Amb. Bethuel Kiplagat

Matters Arising

Internally Displaced Camps
There is a concern that top political leaders are quiet about asking others to vacate and return property that does not belong to them. The Muslim Sheikh from Mombasa made [...]

CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR PEACE MEETING: HELD ON 2 MAY 2008

CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR PEACE MEETING: HELD ON 2 MAY 2008 AT SHELTER AFRIQUE HOUSE, 1ST FLOOR

Kenya Veterans for Peace

KVP went to Mathare last week and have been carrying out a counting exercise involving landlords and IDP’s. From this exercise they have discovered that there are not only illegal tenants occupying premises but illegal [...]

OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 18, 1 - 9 May 2008

Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Date: 09 May 2008

OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 18, 1 - 9 May 2008

HIGHLIGHTS
- 15,000 IDPs return home as government launches resettlement operation
- Food crisis looms as inflation nears 27%
- Government agrees to new IDP registration format
- Water and sanitation provision stabilizes in most camps
- [...]

Crisis in Kenya: Land, displacement and the search for ‘durable solutions’

Source: ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group (ODI-HPG)
Date: 28 Apr 2008

Crisis in Kenya: Land, displacement and the search for ‘durable solutions’

Key messages
- Current post-election displacement in Kenya is not a new phenomenon but a recurring trend linked to unresolved land grievances, in a context of poor governance and socio-economic insecurity. This is of concern to humanitarians [...]

UNHCR organizes go-and-see visits for displaced Kenyans

Date: 07 May 2008

UNHCR organizes go-and-see visits for displaced Kenyans

NYAKINYUA, Kenya, May 7 (UNHCR) – Thirty displaced Kenyans have paid a day-long visit to the Rift Valley Province villages they fled earlier this year, but left for their sanctuaries undecided about whether or not to return permanently. Some were shocked to see the devastation wreaked [...]

Kenya: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #13 (FY 2008)

Date: 07 May 2008

Kenya: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #13 (FY 200

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)
Note: The last fact sheet was dated April 23, 2008.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
- According to USAID/OFDA staff, on May 5, the Government of Kenya (GOK) launched an [...]

KENYA: Compensation, fear of attacks keeping IDPs in Rift Valley camps

KENYA: Compensation, fear of attacks keeping IDPs in Rift Valley camps

Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

A young boy drinks rain water at the displaced camp at Eldoret. April 2008. The heavy downpour brings a risk of waterborne diseases that can hit the camp.

ELDORET, 1 May 2008 (IRIN) - Along the Nakuru-Eldoret road, the charred remains of [...]