November 21

• Kenya: Breaking Out of the Cold Chain

  Health workers currently immunizing thousands of children and young adults against Meningitis A in Benin are currently doing so without having to spend days preparing ice packs and... Read more »

November 20

• Kenya: Another Bloody Sunday

  Before he knew what was happening, Charles Ngeana, 31, at the scene of Nairobi's 18 November blast, was struck by a flying sheet of metal. The roof of a packed 'matatu' minibus on... Read more »

November 15

• Kenya: Rice Farmers Lose Harvest to Floods

  Flash floods have washed away the rice harvest of some 2,000 farmers in western Kenya, flooding some of their homes and sending latrine effluent into water courses, according to... Read more »

November 7

• Kenya: Experts Rally for Agroforestry, Commercial Tree Farming

  In 2010 and 2009, Kenya lost a whopping 5.8 billion Kenya shillings (US$68 million) and 6.6 billion shillings ($77 million), respectively, to deforestation, a new report released... Read more »

October 31

• Kenya: Disquiet Over Lamu Port Project

  A fledgling project to build a huge new port, oil refinery and transport hub on Kenya's northern coastline promises to deliver thousands of jobs and is a pillar of the government's... Read more »

• Kenya: Pastoralists Can Also Be Displaced

  Can pastoralists, who spend much of their lives itinerant, in search of pasture, become displaced? They can, and up to 400,000 pastoralists in northern Kenya are currently... Read more »

October 29

• Kenya: Sand Harvesting Threatens to Displace Thousands

  Every day, 180 trucks chug their way to the banks of a river near Lake Victoria and leave laden with sand. Their cargo fuels Kenya's construction boom and the local labour market,... Read more »

October 25

• Kenya: Kenya's Coastal Separatists - Menace or Martyrs?

  Kenyan security forces are conducting a wave of arrests of members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), who are accused of incitement and acts of violence. Below, IRIN offers... Read more »

October 19

• Uganda: Military Deployed to Kenyan Border to Curb Cattle Rustling

  The government of Uganda has deployed military personnel to its border with Kenya in a bid to stamp out cross-border cattle rustling. Read more »

• Kenya: Government Issues Flood Warning

  The Kenyan government has issued an alert over possible flash floods in parts of the country following the start of the country's October-to-December short rains, which may be... Read more »

• Kenya: Policies Must Consider Needs of Women

  Better management of disaster risk requires paying more attention to those directly affected, especially women, according to experts. Read more »

• Kenya: Refugee Relocation Order Sparks Concern

  Amid rising insecurity, a senior official in Kenya's North Eastern Province has ordered all refugees and unregistered migrants from neighbouring Somalia to move to the... Read more »

• Kenya: Urban Poor Missing Out On Vital Nutrients

  In slums around the world, the sight of food vendors along dusty alleys, serving customers as they wave away flies, is common. Many of these consumers do not consider themselves... Read more »

October 5

• Kenya: Major Measles Vaccine Campaign Planned

  The Kenyan government is set to conduct a "mop-up" vaccination campaign against measles following an outbreak of the disease in several areas of the country. Read more »

• Kenya: Kenya-Somalia - Battling to Contain Cholera, Hepatitis E Outbreaks

  An outbreak of cholera along the Kenya-Somalia border has left dozens dead and many more sick, according to local residents, aid workers and government officials. Read more »

October 4

• Kenya: Boosting Contraceptive Use to Cut Unsafe Abortions

  A year ago, when Peggy*, 23, became pregnant, her boyfriend abandoned her. Unemployed and already a single mother, she decided to terminate the pregnancy - and she nearly died in... Read more »

September 30

• Kenya: Irrigation Catches On [opinion]

  After years of devastating crop failures due to drought and erratic rainfall, smallholders in Kenya - who comprise the bulk of the country's farmers - are increasingly taking up... Read more »

September 27

• Kenya: Government Launches New Guidelines to Contain Black Fever

  The Kenyan government has launched guidelines for the treatment and prevention of visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala azar or black fever, in a move government officials say... Read more »

• Kenya: Putting the Cash Back Into Cashews

  Kenya's ailing cashew sector, which provides a livelihood of sorts to 60,000 farmers, is set for a boost. Read more »

September 18

• Kenya: Needs Rise Among Tana River Violence Survivors, Displaced

  The month-long violence in Kenya's Tana River District has left a broad wake of destruction and need. Health facilities, inundated by people injured in the conflict, are struggling... Read more »

September 14

• Kenya: Kenya's Deadly Mix of Frustration, Politics and Impunity [analysis]

  Recent deadly clashes in Kenya stem from widespread economic frustration, chronic impunity and the ambitions of politicians seeking office, according to analysts and activists. Read more »

September 7

• Somalia: Kismayo Feels the Heat Ahead of Amisom Assault

  Hundreds of civilians have over recent weeks fled the Somali port city of Kismayo, where tension is rising amid sporadic shelling by the Kenyan navy in the run-up to an African... Read more »

September 6

• Kenya: Looming Tax Break Loss Alarms Farmers

  Reintroducing VAT on farm inputs, many of which are already priced beyond the reach of most Kenyan small-scale farmers, could undermine agricultural production and threaten food... Read more »

September 5

• Kenya: Floods Displace Thousands

  Thousands of people have been displaced in parts of Kenya's Rift Valley Province as floodwaters continue to submerge houses and schools and destroy crops. Read more »

August 30

• Kenya: Politics, Pastureland and Conflict

  Thousands of people have fled their homes amid renewed clashes between rival communities in Kenya's North Eastern Province, in which some 17 people were killed, according to... Read more »