Posts in Kenya

Kenya: From Discrimination to Positive Living with HIV

When Victor learned that he was co-infected with HIV and TB in 2003, he faced enormous societal stigma and challenges to getting treatment.

MSF again condemns abduction of its two colleagues in Dadaab, calls for their release

03.04.2013

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A Month in Focus - March 2012

20.03.2012

Our Month in Focus videos give you a chance to visit some of MSF's projects around the world.

Urban Survivors: A journey through the world's slums

02.11.2011
 

Crisis situation - Somali refugees in Dadaab, Kenya

03.08.2011

New video from the outskirts of Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.

"I haven't seen our home region for over nine months"

As more than 2,000 Somalis cross the borders of their country into Kenya and Ethiopia every day in search of assistance, in Somalia itself unprecedented numbers of people are on the move in a de

Kenya: BBC Report - The Biggest Refugee Camp in the World is Full

07.07.2011

This video clip  is from yesterday's (6th July 2011) BBC One lunchtime news.

Somalia Appeal

08.06.2011

Thank you to everyone who has supported our Somalia Appeal to date.  Even for the long-suffering Somali...

 

Kenya

01.10.2010

For more than two decades, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical care in Kenya. In 2011, MSF assisted both local people and...

Kenya 2011 © Brendan Bannon

Kenya: Between rubbish, violence, and hope

21.02.2013

Kelly Khabala is a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) Clinical Officer.

MSF Clinical Officer, Kelly Khabala. Kenya 2013 © MSF

Hear My Voice: Somalis on Living in a Humanitarian Crisis

In a report released on February 13th 2013, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
highlights violence, displacement and food...

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Somalia: Independent Humanitarian Assistance must remain a priority

13.02.2013

In a report released today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) highlights violence, displacement and food shortages as...

Somali 2011 © Peter Casaer/MSF

One Year Later, MSF Remembers Two Colleagues Killed in Somalia

29.12.2012

It is with great sadness that the
international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
marks...

Andrias Karel Keiluhu and Philippe Havet © MSF

Kenya: leaders must not fail Dadaab refugees

02.10.2012

This week, government leaders gather in Geneva on the occasion of the 63rd UNHCR Executive Committee, while in Dadaab - the world’s largest...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Dadaab: Shadows of lives

Dadaab holds the shameful title of the largest refugee camp in the world.

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Kenya: Dadaab emergency only a matter of time

15.06.2012

It is only a matter of time before the next emergency hits Dadaab refugee camp, says a briefing paper released today by Médecins Sans Frontières/...

Dusty streets in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya

Dadaab: Back to square one

MSF takes stock of the current humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home to the world’s largest refugee camp with...

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MSF launches new report: "Dadaab: back to square one"

16.02.2012

MSF takes stock of the current
humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home
to the world’s largest refugee camp with...

Refugees queue outside MSF's hospital at Dadaab camp. Kenya 2011 © Natasha Lewe

Kenya: MSF seeks swift release of staff without use of force

18.10.2011

Following the abduction of two MSF staff in Dadaab, Kenya, on 13 October, the international medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors...

Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, logisticians working in Dadaab Kenya © MSF

Kenya: MSF staff abducted

14.10.2011

Update: Yesterday, Thursday October 13, an MSF team suffered an attack in Dadaab, Kenya.

Country Year © Author/MSF

Somalia Appeal: Dadaab photo gallery

05.08.2011

As the humanitarian crisis at the Dadaab refugee camp in Northern
Kenya worsen and MSF's work intensifies, photojournalist ...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Children dying in aid camps due to 10-week delay on food

05.08.2011

Irish Indepedent, August 3rd 2011  Children arriving at the world's largest refugee camp are having to wait up to 10 weeks for...

Somalia: MSF distributes relief goods to 600 displaced families in Jilib

05.08.2011

Over 3600 people who have found temporary shelter in the southern-Somali town of Jilib (Lower Julba Valley) received plastic sheeting, mosquito...

Somali child receiving medical treatment in refugee camp hospital in Kenya

From one desert to another: MSF deeply concerned by the current relocation of refugees to Ifo 3 camp in Dadaab

27.07.2011

MSF calls on the Government of Kenya and UNHCR to relocate refugees to the better Ifo 2 camp, as agreed 12 days ago.  

Kenya 2011 © Brendan Bannon

Somalia: MSF demands end to delays and restrictions

25.07.2011

In light of the worsening nutritional crisis in Somalia, the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors...

Photo of a mother and baby at Marere hospital, Somalia

Somalia Appeal: RTE Drivetime interview with MSF Operational Manager

19.07.2011

18th July 2011: With the latest update on the humanitarian crisis in East Africa, MSF's Operational Manager Joe Belliveau reports that inside...

A one-year old Somali girl is given emergency treatment at an MSF hospital in Ke

East Africa: Humanitarian Crisis as the world's biggest refugee camp is full

15.07.2011

Waves of people continue to arrive every day at the sprawling Dadaab
refugee camp in eastern Kenya.  Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (...

A malnourished infant lies on a bed at MSF's hospital in Dadaab camp

Somalia Appeal: RTE Morning Ireland interview with MSF Operational Manager

11.07.2011

MSF's Operational Manager for Somalia and Kenya, Joe Belliveau, was interviewed today (Monday 11th July 2011) on Morning Ireland.  He talks...

Joe Belliveau, MSF Operational Manager

Somalia: MSF seeks to expand relief efforts in Al-Shabaab territory

08.07.2011

The announcement by one of the main armed factions in Somalia, Al Shabaab, that foreign relief organisations would be welcomed in territories...

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Somali Refugees in Kenya: On the edge of survival

07.07.2011

MSF Photostory: The three refugee camps run by the office of the United Nations High Commissoner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dadaab, Kenya,...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Kenya: The Biggest Refugee Camp in the World is Full

13.06.2011

Stranded in the desert of Kenya’s northeastern province, surrounded by mile upon mile of sand and scrubby bushes, 30,000 people are living in...

Dadaab, Kenya: Newly-arrived refugees from Somalia are living in flimsy shelters

'No Way In' MSF Focus on Dadaab

Stranded in the desert of Kenya’s north-eastern province, surrounded by mile upon mile of sand, 30,000 people are living in makeshift shelters...

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Kenya: Camp lies empty as 400 refugees arrive each day

21.01.2011

The 'Ifo Two' refugee camp lies empty whilst tens of thousands of Somali refugees live in unacceptable conditions less than 10 kilometres away.

Country Year © Author/MSF

Escaping from war to an overcrowded refugee camp

21.12.2010

Somali refugees, fleeing the fighting in their own country, continue to arrive in Dadaab, across the Kenyan border.

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Kala Azar- "Forgotten" Disease, Not Forgotten by Those Afflicted

26.08.2010

Kala Azar, also known as leishmaniasis, is largely unknown in the developing world.  Ninety percent of cases occur in Bangladesh,...

Positive living: success of integrated HIV care in Busia, Kenya

06.05.2010

Sitting in his consultation room in SIOPORT district...

Positive living: success of integrated HIV care in Busia, Kenya

06.05.2010

Sitting in his consultation room in SIOPORT district hospital clinical officer Kennedy Ndonga remembers how things used to be for this community...

Video: Somali refugees in Kenya: A day in Dadaab

16.02.2010

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