President Mwai Kibaki on Monday launched a multimillion-dollar fund for resettlement of displaced persons, to be chaired by the retired Catholic Archbishop of Nairobi, Raphael Ndingi Mwana a' Nzeki.
The Kenyan government has raised Ksh1.46 billion (US$22.4 million) of the Ksh30 billion ($462 million) it says it needs to resettle at least 350,000 people displaced during the post-election crisis.
On a sad note floods from the overflowing Cuvelai system displaced thousands, inundating many homes in northern Namibia, but on the other hand they are a rich source of much-sought-after catfish.
A TOTAL of 340 Kenyan refugees have left Mulanda transit camp in Tororo district and returned home. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), which has been catering for the displaced people at the transit camp transported them back on Thursday.
Mass arrests in Khartoum of perceived supporters of a Darfur rebel group and other political opponents raise fears of mistreatment, Human Rights Watch said today.
Amnesty International today condemned the recent threats against humanitarian workers in Somalia made by Muqtar Robow Abu Mansur, a leader and spokesperson of Al-Shabab.
President Kibaki and his Cabinet ministers on Monday appeared to set aside the law banning public officers from conducting harambees and gathered to raise Sh457 million for internal refugees.
Rwanda has expressed doubts about the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) commitment to disarming rebels of the Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), in line with last year's Nairobi Accord.
THE United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) is to investigate accusations that their soldiers supplied arms to Allied Democratic Force (ADF) rebels.
A total of 339 Kenyan refugees who have been at Mulanda transit camp in Tororo District returned home on Friday . At least 207 were repatriated through Malaba border post while 132 went through Busia.
Over 2000 Kenyan refugees have begun a new life in central Uganda, months after the Kenyan crisis ended but Ugandan and aid agencies say international rules do not permit asking them to leave the country.
Our brothers and sisters are spending desolate nights of bitterness and loss occasioned by the post-election violence. There are renewed fears by some of the displaced over the recent move by the government to resettle them.
The failure by a group of visiting American editors to travel to war-ravaged northern Uganda, has riled leaders in the region who accuse the senior foreign journalists of ignoring the ruinous effects of the two-decade long Lord 's Resistance Army
A national fund-raiser to help resettle displaced families realised more than Sh400 million yesterday, raising fresh hopes of further economic reconstruction.
