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Overview of the Situation Kenya has experienced five consecutive below-average rainy seasons, causing the longest and most severe drought in recent history and driving rapidly rising humanitarian...

Context Overview The Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) region of Kenya has experienced four back-to-back below-average rainy seasons, leading to the longest drought in at least 40 years and leaving at...

Crisis Overview The cumulative impact of two consecutive poor rainy seasons, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, insecurity, pests and diseases have caused humanitarian needs to rapidly rise in the...

The funds will be used to support public health responses to contain the spread of COVID-19 and provide targeted humanitarian assistance and protection to the most vulnerable and at-risk communities.

People in the Arid and Semi-Arid (ASAL) Counties of Kenya are experiencing a food security and nutrition crisis as a result of a protracted drought that has undermined coping capacities and...

Kenya is experiencing the second consecutive season with widespread below-average rainfall; diminished food production has exhausted people’s capacity to cope with another shock.

As the March 2013 elections draw near, the risk of increased inter-communal violence is a key concern. In 2012, more than 80,000 people have been displaced by such violence.

1. Executive Summary Kenya, alongside other countries in the Horn of Africa, has for most of 2011 faced a severe food crisis due to a climatic disaster that has become a recurring phenomenon in...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Kenya overwhelmingly approved a new Constitution on 4 August 2010 after a long 20-year historic journey. The new law brings renewed optimism for change, more so ahead of the general...

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Acute emergency needs in Kenya are gradually subsiding. Food security has improved for droughtaffected pastoral and marginal agricultural households following the satisfactory...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The emerging signs of drought and the growing humanitarian crisis in Kenya have worsened since mid-2008. Four consecutive failed rains, sustained high food and commodity prices, the...

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The crisis which followed the 2007 presidential elections in Kenya gave rise to a sudden and large scale humanitarian emergency, the effects of which were felt far beyond Kenya's...

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The crisis which followed the 2007 presidential elections in Kenya gave rise to a sudden and large-scale humanitarian emergency, the effects of which were felt far beyond Kenya's...

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Widespread violence, triggered by the announcement on 30 December 2007 that incumbent Mwai Kibaki had narrowly won a contested presidential election against Orange Democratic...

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Widespread violence, which has caused a growing humanitarian crisis, was triggered in Kenya by the announcement on 30 December 2007 that incumbent Mwai Kibaki had narrowly won a...

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The rapid territorial gains being made by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in Somalia and the precarious strength of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) based in Baidoa have...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The current national emergency in Kenya is the result of the unfortunate convergence of several events linked to the rainfall patterns that characterise the country. Drought-like...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Two years after a devastating drought, Kenya is moving out of the emergency phase and into recovery. Food security prospects in many parts of the country (pastoral and agro-pastoral...

Over 4 million affected by the Drought in Kenya - Minister launches UN Appeal The Minister of State in the Office of the President, in charge of Relief and Rehabilitation, Mr. Shariff Nassir will, on...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over 4 million people are suffering from the effects of the current drought in Kenya, the worst in 60 years. Humanitarian assistance remains a priority in the 22 most-affected...