NAIROBI, 8 Feb 2006 (IRIN) – The failure of the 2005 short rains in 25 Kenyan districts has left at least 3.5 million people, including 500,000 school children, in need of emergency assistance over the next year, the government said on Wednesday. “Following five consecutively failed or poor seasons, vulnerable populations are running out of coping options,” said an assessment report by the Kenya Food Security Steering Group, whose members include government ministries, United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organisations. Speaking at the launch of an appeal for US $245 million

Found an interesting column about journalism these times… Follow this link by clicking here I don’t say I agree, but it is interesting to think about.

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Nairobi has a lot of business opportunities. It is time for a bar, the owner of this place thought. In the brand new Panari Center on the road to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will find Club Liquid. In development countries you observe the contrast of the world within 20 meters from each other. Each tiome you realise and it is quite confronting. I heared that the owners of the place were planning a Madagaskar Food Festival around this time. At the same moment more than 4 million Kenyans are

Kenyans ‘eat’ their newspapers. Nowadays a lot of newspapers dare to criticize the Kenyan government. Things are changing.

Almost every building, house or office in Kenya, is providing work for askari’s or soldiers./ They are guarding Kenya and I would not be surprised that a majority of working Kenyans are working as an askari in the Services sector. More than 80 percent is working in agriculture.

Marsabit story published in Dutch Daily Trouw. Click here or better: run to the kiosk to buy that paper 😉 On top of the page, go to “Pagina 11”

Check out this African Blog of Scott Fontaine and of course from Ruud Elmendorp. The last one has a lot of interesting video reports from Africa.

Even camels are dying… Please dial +254(0)736 569528 for written reports.