Full Coverage: Kenya

28.02.2006 On-the-spot reports on Kenya's drought by members of AMREF's communications team, Arik Karani and Christine Misiko.

28.02.2006 The race to position the country as AfricaÂ’s ICT hub kicks off in Nairobi today. Over 500 public and private sector policy and decision makers will hold a one-day national ICT conference to strategise on the way forward for the sector.

24.02.2006 They are running factories and non-profits, leading campaigns and demonstrations, and standing up to government oppression around the world. They are mothers, widows, journalists, Nobel Prize winners, peacemakers...they are just like you and me.

24.02.2006 Kenya is facing a disaster of "immense proportions" because of unprecedented drought and the Africa-wide collapse of small-scale and household farming, a development group warned yesterday.
* UN envoy urges global community to explore root causes of hunger

24.02.2006 Corruption in Kenya is driven by neo-liberal policies imposed by the West as well as by a lack of democratic institutions, argues Onyango Oloo, a political activist and former political prisoner.

23.02.2006 Firm commitments from rich countries to fund the response to the food crisis in East Africa are not being made quickly enough, a leading international aid agency said today.

22.02.2006 Seated in his office on the 10th Floor of Teleposta Tower, Nairobi, Dr Bitange Ndemo, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, cuts the image of a confident CEO sitting on the crest of a blue-chip company.

21.02.2006 Mungai recommends a more significant consideration of environmental issues in the regional and national poverty reduction and ICT discussions in Kenya. Specifically, he recommends addressing poverty reduction as proposed in the
MDGs and resolutions of the WSSD.

20.02.2006 About two thousand people staged a peaceful demonstration in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Friday demanding that three top officials implicated in corruption resign or be dismissed.

16.02.2006 The government (Kenya) aims to make Kenya an ICT capital of Africa to support Kenya's objectives of job and wealth creation.

08.02.2006 Failure to quickly fund the Kenyan aid effort could lead to large-scale loss of life and the worst humanitarian crisis since Kenya gained independence in 1963, Oxfam International has warned.

08.02.2006 A major crisis has hit the Horn of Africa, where a severe drought is endangering an estimated 1.5 million children under the age of five, the UN Children's Fund said yesterday.

08.02.2006 The food crisis in Kenya is causing not only widespread starvation and malnutrition, but also large-scale communal violence in the region. The UN and other aid agencies are devising a statement, to be released Wednesday, that will encourage increased aid to the region to help bring food to the area and halt fighting before it becomes too severe to be stopped.

06.02.2006 Kenya's escalating food crisis is threatening to plunge the affected region into a level of conflict that it has not been seen for almost a decade as nomadic cattle herders fight over resources, a leading development agency said today.

02.02.2006 Kenya's Minister for Finance, David Mwiraria, resigned following "false allegations that have cast serious aspersions" on his character.