July 10

• Kenya: Irrigation Scheme Locks Horns With Kenya's Pastoralists

  The Kenyan government is planning to introduce large-scale irrigation in the country's dry lands to improve food security and unlock agricultural potential - but critics have... Read more »

July 05

• South Africa: Matchmaking Medical Research

  Are you a global research consortium looking for sites to test treatments for neglected tropical diseases? Or a major biotech company interested in performing clinical trials on... Read more »

July 02

• Kenya: Jane Njeri - Displaced Person, Kenya

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• Kenya: Millicent Wanyama - Breadcrumb Seller, Kenya

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• Kenya: Tackling HIV On Kenya's Transport Corridors

  The Kenyan government has launched a strategic plan to help revitalize HIV prevention programmes for mobile populations working along country's transport corridors. Kenya's mobile... Read more »

June 28

• Somalia: Doubts Arise Over Repatriating Refugees

  As plans to facilitate the return of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees from neighbouring Kenya gather steam, serious doubts persist about whether conditions in Somalia are... Read more »

• Kenya: Inter-Clan Clashes Disrupt Aid Delivery

  The northeastern Kenya county of Mandera is experiencing a spike in inter-clan clashes, with several deaths recorded in the past week. Episodes of insecurity, since March 2012,... Read more »

June 18

• Africa: Maternal and Paediatric Tuberculosis Still Overlooked

  The global target of a 50 percent reduction in tuberculosis (TB) by 2015 may already have been achieved, but TB remains a neglected disease among women and young children, say... Read more »

May 17

• Kenya: Restive North Sees Shifting Power, Risks [analysis]

  The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in... Read more »

May 08

• Kenya: Sending the Right Message On Mhealth

  We've read the stories: From bedridden patients sending text messages to their health workers, to young people receiving HIV prevention messages via SMS, the mobile phone seems to... Read more »

May 06

• Kenya: Countering the Radicalization of Kenya's Youth [analysis]

  Unemployment, poverty and political marginalization are contributing to the Islamic radicalization of Kenya's youth, a situation experts say must be addressed through economic... Read more »

April 18

• Kenya: In Kenya, Technology Revolutionizes TB Management

  The use of technology is revolutionizing the way Kenya manages tuberculosis (TB). Through a computer- and mobile-phone based programme called TIBU, health facilities are able to... Read more »

April 24

• Kenya: Floods Highlight Disaster Management Challenges

  Assistance to thousands of flood-affected families in Kenya has been curtailed by lack of a national disaster management body, poor coordination, poor rural infrastructure and... Read more »

March 28

• Kenya: Major Price Cut for Rapid TB Test

  The cost of a highly accurate, rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been reduced by 40 percent under a new agreement between the US government, the Bill and Melinda... Read more »

March 25

• Kenya: Devolution to Transform Kenya

  Whatever the outcome of Kenya's disputed presidential race, this month's elections have delivered a mighty boost to the process of decentralizing power from Nairobi, one designed... Read more »

March 13

• Kenya: Kenya's Waste Management Challenge

  As the urban population in Nairobi and elsewhere in East Africa grows, so does the solid waste management burden - a situation worsened by poor funding for urban sanitation... Read more »

March 06

• Kenya: In Kenya, Information Strengthens Pastoralists' Resilience

  Inadequate access to information, such as weather forecasts, has hampered Kenyan pastoralists' ability to respond and adapt to climate change, experts say. Read more »

March 05

• Kenya: Land Reform Key to Kenya's Future

  Land-related grievances were among the underlying causes of the violence that followed Kenya's disputed presidential election results in 2007. Some communities, such as those in... Read more »

February 26

• Kenya: Drug Resistance Risk As Displaced HIV Patients Skip ARV Doses

  After a fortnight of political violence during which an estimated 250,000 Kenyans were displaced, health workers are scrambling to ensure that HIV-positive people on... Read more »

• Kenya: HIV Programmes Steel Themselves for Elections

  When violence broke out following the announcement of Kenya's poll results in 2007, Henry Mwiterere and his family fled to safety shortly before their house, in the Rift Valley... Read more »

February 21

• Kenya: Sexual Violence Still a Major Urban Threat

  Reports of gender-based violence are on the rise in Kenya's cities, and experts say the police must improve their handling of cases of sexual assault to build public trust in the... Read more »

• Kenya: Post-Election Rape Survivors Sue Govt

  Eight survivors of sexual violence committed in the wake of Kenya's December 2007 general elections have taken the government to court over its alleged failure to protect them or... Read more »

February 19

• Kenya: New Cases of Dengue Fever, Kala-Azar Reported in Kenya's North

  An outbreak of dengue fever and a suspected outbreak of kala-azar in northern Kenya are drawing attention to the need for improved health services in some of the country's most... Read more »

• Kenya: No Ordinary Elections

  Kenya has never held elections as complex, pivotal or potentially divisive as this year's, which will see in a fresh president and a radical decentralization of power. Read more »

February 18

• Kenya: Rising Insecurity in Northern Kenya

  Over the past two months, an estimated 1,000 families have been forced from their homes in Baringo, a district in Kenya's northern Rift Valley, because of recurrent conflict... Read more »