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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date: 16 Apr 2008
IDPs in Kenya hesitant to return home despite relative calm
CHOGOCHO, Kenya, April 16 (UNHCR) – Thousands of internally displaced people (IDP) in Kenya are still hesitant to go home despite the return of peace to parts of the country affected by post-election violence at the [...]
Date: 09 Apr 2008
Kenya: Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #11 (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 March 26, 2008.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
- On April 8, media sources reported increased tensions and street protests in Nairobi’s Kiberia slum [...]
1,500 flock to Uganda camps
More than 1411 Kenyans who have fled the country after the eruption of post election violence have camped at a Ugandan camp, some 60km from Busia Town. Ms Yumiko Takashima, head of the UNHCR office in Uganda, said the refugees at the Mulanda Community Polytechnic Instructor’s College came from as far [...]
Kenyan refugees in Uganda
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 22 January 2008, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Meanwhile in neighbouring Uganda, UNHCR – together with the Ugandan authorities – is gearing up [...]
Kenyan refugees in Uganda
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 22 January 2008, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Meanwhile in neighbouring Uganda, UNHCR – together with the Ugandan authorities – is gearing up [...]
UNHCR relocates Kenyan refugees in Uganda
MULANDA, Uganda, January 23 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Wednesday began relocating an estimated 6,500 Kenyan refugees away from border areas in south-east Uganda to a transit centre some 35 kilometres inland.
Six buses carrying an initial group of 360 refugees set off in driving rain from the border [...]
UNHCR concerned about latest violence in Kenya’s Rift Valley
NAIROBI, Kenya, UNHCR, January 29 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday it was very concerned about the worsening security situation in western Kenya’s Rift Valley Province. In the last few days, this has hindered access to increasingly vulnerable groups of internally displaced people (IDP).
On [...]
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