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Kenya: Malnutrition Costs Govt Billions Yearly - Report
Nation, 30 September 2020
Kenya loses billions of shillings every year to malnutrition, which causes more children and women to face diet related non-communicable diseases. Read more »
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Kenya: Kenya Launches Nutrition Policies to Reduce Malnutrition
Capital FM, 28 September 2020
The Ministry of Health has launched new measures to tackle malnutrition aiming to improve Kenyans' health, nutrition and quality of life, boost immunity against diseases like… Read more »
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Kenya: Red Alert - Colour-Coded Tape Keeps Children From Malnutrition in Mandera
Nation, 25 September 2020
In villages, health centres and homes across Banisa, women are learning how to fight malnutrition, one of the biggest challenges Mandera County faces. Read more »
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Africa: Preserving Food Security in Africa's Urban Areas
IPS, 10 September 2020
In Torit State, southern South Sudan, Margaret Itto is one of the farmers in Africa's youngest country who have invested heavily in agriculture. But she is not able to access the… Read more »
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Kenya: Looming Crisis as Thousands in Mbeere Stare At Hunger
Nation, 6 August 2020
At least 50,000 families living in the arid Mbeere South Constituency in Embu are staring at drought because of rising temperatures which have adversely affected water pans. Read more »
The Devastating Impact of Malnutrition on Kenya's Children
One in four children under five years old is stunted, Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi said at the national nutrition symposium in Nairobi. According to the health ministry, about 4% of these children are wasted, while 11% are underweight. Other risk factors to children in the under-five category and to adults in the 18-69 year old category, is obesity and being overweight - conditions that give rise to non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. The country is experiencing the triple burden of malnutrition, "with co-existence of under-nutrition (stunting, underweight and wasting), over-nutrition (overweight and obesity), as well as micronutrient deficiencies also known as "hidden hunger".
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Control operations have been intensified in Samburu and Turkana counties as the government seeks to eliminate the destructive pests, which are heavily feeding on vegetation and ... Read more »
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The swarms are expected to mature and lay eggs shortly after landing in Sudan due to the good breeding and survival conditions occasioned by the rains at Kordofan and Darfur. The ... Read more »
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14.5 million Kenyans are food insecure every year according to the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research Analysis. Although Kenya has made some progress with food security, it ... Read more »
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Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are dealing with desert locust swarms of "unprecedented size and destructive potential" that could spill over into more countries in East Africa, the ... Read more »
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The number of acutely food-insecure people in need of emergency food assistance has also increased throughout 2019 from an estimated 1.1 million in February to 1.6 million in May ... Read more »
