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After months of languishing in the hundreds of overcrowded, understaffed, and undersupplied camps, Kenya’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) are finally returning home.
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Human suffering is often visible and obvious in both natural distasters and civil conflict – hunger, injuries and people forced from their homes by destruction or violence. But often there are hidden and less visible needs of people who are among the most vulnerable in an emergency situation.
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As the political stalemate continues and violence associated with the highly controversial December 27th elections of 2007 escalates and spreads, camps for those displaced throughout Kenya are operating beyond their capacity.
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While political parties and outside mediators struggle to find a peaceful solution to Kenya’s election dispute, young people find a different challenge as they wrestle with crisis in a once peaceful country.
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Ann Owino is one among tens of thousands of Kenyans forced from their homes by post-election violence. She wants to return home to the Kiambiu slum with her two children, but fears doing so in the midst of the ongoing turmoil.
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Millions of Kenyans went to the polls to choose their president in the national elections after Christmas. But for Benta Nyipolo and hundreds of thousands of Kenyans like her, being forced from their homes in the violence sparked by the election dispute was something they did not choose.
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Rising tensions and violence in Kenya following a disputed election has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people with tens of thousands fleeing their homes.
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Villages across Ukambani district outside Machackos, Kenya, each received 24 kilograms of corn flour distributed by the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church, a local partner of Church World Service, which in turn is a member of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International.
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Community organizes to find solutions, but livelihoods move in new directions.
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More than 500 drought-affected families in the Machakos region of Kenya received maize through a relief program coordinated by Church World Service (CWS), a member of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International, and its local partner, the Africa Brotherhood Church (ABC).
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HIV and AIDS have scoured Kenya with many early deaths, leaving behind children, wives, mothers and grandmothers. Twelve million children in sub-Saharan Africa have been orphaned by AIDS, and the number grows daily.
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While much of Kenya is experiencing the rainy season, in Masongaleni of Kibwezi, within Kenyan's Makueni District, there has been only one millimeter of rainfall.
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East Africa is in the grip of its worst drought for more than 20 years. The UN estimates that more than 8 million people across eastern Africa are in desperate need of food and water.
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Outside the town of El Wak, on the Kenya-Somalia border, more than 200 families are living in makeshift camps, waiting for assistance. Four months ago the camp did not even exist.
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The food shortage caused by a drought in parts of Kenya is quickly reaching a crisis stage, with the World Food Program warning of “absolutely catastrophic” consequences if aid is not delivered to some areas in a matter of days.
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