---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IRIN <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:43:42 -0000 Subject: CENTRAL AND EAST AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 594 26 August 2011 To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
IRINnews logo <http://www.irinnews.org/> humanitarian news and analysis a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Table of contents 1. KENYA: "Perfect storm" brewing among urban poor 2. KENYA: Drought - the view from the ground 3. KENYA-SOMALIA: The nitty-gritty of flight 4. KENYA: Weak HIV-positive people struggle to access food aid 5. KENYA: Amina Abdalla, "There will be war... People will fight over water" 6. KENYA: Culture, poverty fuelling malnutrition 7. KENYA: Demo Hassan, "For 40 years, food aid has been routine" _____ KENYA: "Perfect storm" brewing among urban poor <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93551> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2010/201001151015190056t.jpg> NAIROBI, 22 August 2011 (IRIN) - The food crisis that is devastating lives and killing children throughout the Horn of Africa is not restricted to the arid lands where media attention and donor dollars are now focused. In informal urban settlements, malnutrition affects thousands of children but remains largely overlooked. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93551> _____ KENYA: Drought - the view from the ground <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93561> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201108221221430671t.jpg> HOLA-MWINGI, 22 August 2011 (IRIN) - In the drought-affected lower eastern and coastal regions of Kenya, accessing water is an arduous and sometimes dangerous task. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93561> _____ KENYA-SOMALIA: The nitty-gritty of flight <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93564> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201108221241190734t.jpg> LIBOI-DOLOW, 23 August 2011 (IRIN) - The vast number of people fleeing famine and drought in Somalia for neighbouring Kenya overshadows the fact that each journey begins with a tough decision to leave that is prompted by specific events and is followed by a series of more mundane choices, such as what to pack. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93564> _____ KENYA: Weak HIV-positive people struggle to access food aid <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93569> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201105181426570170t.jpg> NAIROBI, 23 August 2011 (PlusNews) - Every morning, Julia Aukot walks 17km to eastern Kenya's Isiolo town in search of work so she can feed her six children and ailing husband; the journey is punishing, but as her family's sole breadwinner, she has no choice. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93569> _____ KENYA: Amina Abdalla, "There will be war... People will fight over water" <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93576> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images//2006312t.jpg> MARSABIT, 24 August 2011 (IRIN) - Amina Abdalla, a 45-year-old mother of seven, lives in northern Kenya's Marsabit District, where life is a daily struggle for scarce water and pasture. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93576> _____ KENYA: Culture, poverty fuelling malnutrition <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93578> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201108241146300781t.jpg> MWINGI, 25 August 2011 (IRIN) - A mix of illiteracy, cultural practices, poverty and institutional challenges is compounding already high drought-related child malnutrition levels in parts of Kenya. Read report online <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93578> _____ KENYA: Demo Hassan, "For 40 years, food aid has been routine" <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93592> lead photo<http://www.irinnews.org/images/2011/201108261157010625t.jpg> GARBATULLA, 26 August 2011 (IRIN) - The humanitarian response to Kenya's current food crisis may be unusual in its scale and media attention but there is nothing new about food aid in northern Kenya, where lack of development, insecurity, population growth and recurrent drought have long combined to undermine self-sufficiency. Several million people there receive food aid as a matter of course. Demo Hassan, 66, a livestock trader in Garbatulla, gives voice to the dependency problem theory, the idea that such largesse feeds a vicious cycle. 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