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KENYA: Agencies appeal for funds as new government named

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Relief agencies are seeking US$189 million for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and others affected by the post-election violence that rocked...

KENYA: Tracing roots of conflict in Laikipia

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Many parts of Kenya experienced violence for the first time after the disputed December 2007 presidential elections, but Rift Valley's Laikipia...

KENYA: Armed and dangerous

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Kenya is at risk of plunging into a new wave of violence, despite progress in negotiations to end a political crisis, because several armed groups...

KENYA: Clashes, tension "routine" in troubled Molo

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

In Kenya’s Rift Valley town of Molo, about 200km from Nairobi, displacement by conflict has become a recurrent feature of life, and not only at...

KENYA: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

As Kenya counts the human and material cost of the political violence, hospitals are reporting an increase in reported rapes during the immediate...

KENYA: Polls turned neighbours into enemies

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Amid the usual piles of fetid rubbish on the streets of Kibera, Kenya's largest slum, there was clear evidence of the recent political violence in...

KENYA: Thousands of IDPs in Mt Elgon need help, say officials

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Thousands of civilians displaced by violence related to land disputes in Mt Elgon, western Kenya, need urgent assistance, according to local...

EAST AFRICA: Holmes warns on humanitarian outlook

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes has warned that the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia's Somali and Sudan's Darfur...

KENYA: More deaths, displacement reported in Mt Elgon

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

A conflict over by land ownership rights in the Mt Elgon district of western Kenya has claimed the lives of another four people and forced more...

WWF works with UN refugee agency to protect Congo's Virunga National Park

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Friday, September 28, 2007

WWF is working closely with UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, to prevent encroachment into the World Heritage-listed Virunga National Park by...

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