Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Date: 27 May 2008
OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 21, 21-27 May 2008
HIGHLIGHTS
- Representative of the Secretary General emphasizes the need to ensure sustainability of the returns and resettlement process.
- Over two thirds of IDPs have left camps and 123 camps have closed since January.
- 84,752 [...]
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 [...]
KNCHR POSITION ON AMNESTY FOR ALLEGED PERPETRATORS OF POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE
I. Introduction
Recently, a debate in Kenya has raged regarding whether persons arrested in the wake of the post election violence should be prosecuted or granted amnesty. These persons comprise mainly youths from Rift Valley, Nyanza, Coast, Central and Nairobi Provinces who are alleged to have committed [...]
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 [...]
Source: Amnesty International (AI)
Date: 22 May 2008
Kenya: Concerns about the truth, justice and reconciliation bill
Introduction
Amnesty International has a number of serious concerns about the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Bill of Kenya (the Bill), published on 9 May 2008 and due to be submitted for debate in Parliament. (i)
Amnesty International recognizes the decision to establish [...]
Source: Inter-Cluster Group for Kenya
Date: 19 May 2008
Kenya Inter-Cluster Team Situation Report No. 24, 19 May 2008: Kenya Post-Election Emergency Response; Cluster - Food Assistance
Kenya Post-Election Emergency Response: Food Assistance Sector
Situation Overview
Kenya Red Cross(KRC), Government of Kenya(GoK), Office of the President/Special Programmes, and WFP are coordinating the single-food-pipeline and food assistance activities in Kenya, building [...]
Kenya Inter-Cluster Team Situation Report No. 23, 08 May 2008: Kenya Post-Election Emergency Response; Cluster - Food Assistance
Situation Overview
Kenya Red Cross(KRC), Government of Kenya(GoK), Office of the President/Special Programmes, and WFP are coordinating the single-food-pipeline and food assistance activities in Kenya, building on the existing food assistance coordination mechanisms in Kenya.
The KRC statistics as of [...]
OCHA Kenya Humanitarian Update vol. 19, 09 -15 May 2008
HIGHLIGHTS
- Government operation continues to return IDPs.
- Permanent Secretary of Special Programs reports that 114,000 displaced
persons have returned to their pre-crisis homes since the end of the conflict.
- Peace and Reconciliation Framework finalized by the Early Recovery Cluster.
- Provisional nutritional survey results for Turkana, Samburu and [...]
KENYA: Financing boost for small farmers
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
The cost of food is rising, placing a disproportionate burden on the poor who spend most of their income on consumables
NAIROBI, 6 May 2008 (IRIN) - Small farmers and agricultural enterprises are the main beneficiaries of a financing partnership launched on 6 May to help [...]
KENYA: Govt raises funds, resettlement ongoing despite hitches
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) at a camp in Eldoret, Rift Valley Province
NAIROBI, 13 May 2008 (IRIN) - The Kenyan government has raised Ksh1.46 billion (US$22.4 million) of the Ksh30 billion ($462 million) it says it needs to resettle at least 350,000 people displaced [...]
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