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	Eastern Province (Kenya) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eastern Province of Kenya is one of seven regions of the country.
		Its northern boundary is with Ethiopia; The North Eastern and Coast provinces lie to the east and south; and the remainder of Kenya's provinces run along its western border.The provincial capital is Embu.
		The eastern half of Lake Turkana (Lake Rudolf renamed) is within the province; as is the Chalbi Desert and Mount Kenya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Province,_Kenya (173 words)

	North Eastern Province (Kenya) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North Eastern is one of Kenya's administrative provinces.
		The overall population is 962,143 (in 1999) and its land area is 126,902 Km².
		Formerly known as the Northern Frontier District, the province covers most of northeastern Kenya and is inhabited by pastoralist communities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Eastern_Province,_Kenya (118 words)

	Kenya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Recent finds near Kenya's Lake Turkana indicate that hominids such as homo habilis (1.8 and 2.5 million years ago) and homo erectus (1.8 million to 350,000 years ago) are possible direct ancestors of modern Homo sapiens and lived in Kenya during the pleistocene.
		Kenya's GDP grew 5% in 1995 and 4% in 1996, and inflation remained under control.
		Kenya holds one of the biggest annual drama events, the Kenya schools and colleges drama festival, in the south of Sahara.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenya (3241 words)

	Kenya - MSN Encarta
		The major courts are the Kenya Court of Appeal, with 9 judges, and the High Court of Kenya, with 27 judges.
		For administrative purposes, Kenya is divided into seven provinces (Central Province, Coast Province, Eastern Province, Northeastern Province, Nyanza Province, Rift Valley Province, and Western Province), in addition to the extra-provincial region of Nairobi and its environs.
		In 2004 Kenya’s defense establishment consisted of an army of 20,000 personnel, a navy of 1,620, and an air force of 2,500.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564507_8/Kenya.html (430 words)

	AN OUTBREAK OF RIFT VALLEY FEVER, EASTERN AFRICA, 1997-1998 - CCDR Volume 24-12 - Health Canada
		In addition to the initial cases confirmed in the North Eastern Province of Kenya and Gedo, Hiran, and Lower Shabeelle provinces of Somalia, surveillance identified cases from the Central (1 case), Eastern (9 cases), and Rift Valley (12 cases) provinces of Kenya (Figure 2).
		On the basis of antibody prevalence data and the assumption that all persons living in the North Eastern Province of Kenya and southern Somalia were a risk for infection, the total number of human infections in the region is estimated to be 89,000.
		This is consistent with reports of confirmed cases from at least four Kenyan provinces (North Eastern, Eastern, Central, and Rift Valley), southern Somalia, and northern United Republic of Tanzania.
	www.phac-aspc.gc.ca /publicat/ccdr-rmtc/98vol24/dr2412eb.html (1212 words)

	Rift Valley Fever -- East Africa, 1997-1998
		Active surveillance conducted by WHO, the Kenya Ministry of Health, and international relief organizations during December 22-28 in 18 villages (population: 200,000) in Garissa district, North Eastern province, Kenya, identified 170 deaths resulting from a "bleeding disease." Severe flooding and large distances between settlements complicated case ascertainment and subsequent evaluation.
		In addition to the confirmed RVF cases in the North Eastern province and the Gedo, Hiran, and Lower Shabeelle provinces of Somalia, acute confirmed RVF cases were identified in the Central (one case), Eastern (nine cases), and Rift Valley (12 cases) provinces of Kenya (Figure_2).
		Editorial Note: In Kenya in 1930, RVF virus was first isolated and recognized as the etiologic agent for a zoonotic disease associated with substantial perinatal mortality and abortions in livestock (1).
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00051976.htm (1439 words)

	Kenya RNIS Acticles
		Kenya has been suffering from the regional Horn of Africa drought and as a result many, areas of the country have experienced episodes of acute food insecurity.
		Kenya has been suffering from the regional drought in the Horn of Africa and has seen acute food insecurity emerge in many areas of the country.
		The Kenya Humanitarian update in March 2001 reports that the scarcity of pasture and water in some northern areas has resulted in an increase in inter clan and inter tribal fighting particularly in the Mandera and Tana river districts.
	www.unsystem.org /scn/Publications/RNIS/countries/kenya_all.htm (18925 words)

	Kenya Somali Community of North America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mr Abdi Omar was born in the Wajir township of North Eastern Province of Kenya.
		In early 1970s, Northeastern Province had become a dangerous place for him to live as the then Kenyan authorities considered him a vocal point for resistance and put a prize on his head.
		The Kenya Government was asked to appoint a commission of inquiry to investigate the Horrific Wajir massacre.
	www.kenyasomalis.org /Chairman.htm (630 words)

	Rift Valley Fever Outbreak Widespread in Kenya
		The outbreak of Rift Valley fever, which had previously been reported in the North-eastern Province of Kenya, appears to be present in other parts of the country, according to WHO experts now in Kenya.
		Elements of the plan include case-based, clinical surveillance in hospitals throughout Kenya to detect new cases and investigate the increased spread of the disease, and a systematic sampling and testing of specimens taken from humans and animals which have contracted the disease.
		For the moment, information on the outbreak from northeastern Kenya is still sparse and WHO and its partners will be working in coming weeks to increase surveillance of and testing for Rift Valley fever and other diseases potentially associated with this outbreak.
	www.who.int /inf-pr-1998/en/pr98-09.html (549 words)

	Eastern Province - Monograph No 95,January 2004, Guns in the Borderlands
		The Eastern Province of Kenya stretches from the districts of Makueni and Kitui in the south of Kenya to Marsabit and a long stretch of border with Ethiopia in the north.
		The pastoral communities of northern Kenya have a long history of violent conflict that has contributed to significant loss of life and property, increased levels of poverty, and has adversely affected social and economic activities of the over 500,000 people in the region over the last three decades.
		Under the Colonial government, northern Kenya (or the NFD as it was then known) was delineated as a buffer zone between the fertile Kenya Highlands and the Abyssinian Plateau, placing it between lucrative farmland and the Italian invasion.
	www.iss.co.za /pubs/Monographs/No95/Chap4.htm (7193 words)

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		Editorial Note: RVFV was first isolated in Kenya in 1930, and recognised as the aetiological agent for a zoonotic disease of sub-Saharan Africa associated with substantial perinatal mortality and abortions.
		On the basis of the antibody prevalence data and the assumption that all residents of the North Eastern province and southern Somalia were at risk of infection, a total of 89,000 human infections may be estimated to have arisen in this region.
		This does not include infections in the rest of Kenya and neighbouring countries_Preliminary laboratory results have confirmed infections with other viral agents, malaria, shigella dysentery, and leptospirosis as explanations for some of the reported cases that met the case definition but were negative for RVFV serology tests.
	www.promedmail.org /pls/askus/f?p=2400:1202:424637::NO::F2400_P1202_CHECK_DISPLAY,F2400_P1202_PUB_MAIL_ID:X,5987 (604 words)

	RVF News
		Preliminary epidemiological studies have shown all areas in Kenya where the RVF infections have occurred in previous years and have recently had heavy rainfall are most likely to have virus ciruclating in both animals and humans.
		These deaths are concentrated in Kenya's Northeastern Province and in southern Somalia, where after a critical review of the data from Somalia, a revised count indicates that 80 deaths are suspected to be due to haemorrhagic fever.
		The outbreak of Rift Valley fever, which had previously been reported in the North-eastern Province of Kenya, appears to be present in other parts of the country, according to WHO experts now in the country.
	www.vadscorner.com /rvfnews.html (2450 words)

	Mama & Childrens Upendo Memorial Trust
		Kenya is a developing country and although it is one of the most developed countries in Africa it is still suffering from poverty and disease.
		The most challenging impact of this pandemic is coming to terms with the disease and dealing with the issues concerning children.
		The orphanage is based in the Kitui District in the Eastern Province of Kenya.
	www.mamatrust.org (325 words)

	Kenyans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kenya is grouped into more than 70 ethnic groups, Some of the ethnic tribes are large e.g.
		The population statistics in Kenya as at 1999 reveal that there were about 28,808,658 persons living in the country.
		Examples of the Eastern cushites are the Boran, the Rendille and the Somali.
	homepages.wmich.edu /~e3kiiru/peop (1017 words)

	UNICEF - Kenya -
		RIFT VALLEY PROVINCE, Kenya, 30 May 2006 — The drought crippling the Horn of Africa is particularly dangerous for children.
		GARISSA / NAIROBI, Kenya, 9 May 2006 — More than half a million vulnerable children under the age of five have been immunized against measles and polio in the first phase of a life-saving vaccination campaign in Kenya’s Central and North Eastern Provinces.
		NAIROBI, Kenya, 25 October 2005 — The Eastern and Southern Africa regional launch of UNITE FOR CHILDREN UNITE AGAINST AIDS was attended by officials from UNICEF, UNAIDS, the African Union, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the National AIDS Control Commission of Kenya.
	www.unicef.org /infobycountry/kenya_newsline.html (1245 words)

	CDC - An Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Northeastern Kenya, 1997-98
		Active surveillance conducted by the WHO, the Kenya MOH, and international relief organizations during December 22 to 28 in 18 villages in Garissa District (population 231,022), North Eastern Province, Kenya, identified 170 human deaths, reportedly from a hemorrhagic fever.
		The background prevalence of past RVFV infection in Kenya is not known, but IgG positivity as high as 40% has been shown in populations at high risk after epizootics (20).
		Observations on the epidemiology of Rift Valley fever in Kenya.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol8no2/01-0023.htm (4549 words)

	Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Several institutions in Kenya train librarians at various levels of qualification such as Moi University, Kenyatta University, Kenya Polytechnic, Sigalagala Technical College in Western Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, University of Nairobi and the Kenya School of professional studies.
		Is a permanent, authoritative, regular, comprehensive, and standardized record of Kenya's publishing output and foreign publications of interest to Kenya.
		The camel mobile library is based in Garissa and Wajir libraries in North Eastern Province.
	www.knls.or.ke /services.htm (2438 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Kenya: Nutritious food for the children of a drought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Garissa, North Eastern Province, Kenya – One-year-old Marian Harun is passed to nutritionist Leila Ahmed to be weighed.
		The drought in the North Eastern Province is in its third year – resulting from erratic or no rainfall season after season.
		Most of their cows have died, and donkeys and camels are now dying in large numbers because of the lack of pasture and water.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/DPAS-6NBC9Z?OpenDocument (787 words)

	Womankind Kenya.
		Womankind Kenya is an indigenous local NGO based in North eastern province Kenya with its head office at Garissa Municipality.
		Womankind was founded in 1989 as a welfare society by local Somali pastoral women who were committed to improving the living standards and the level of decision making of their fellow pastoral women and the girl child in the North Eastern province.
		Womankind Kenya is committed to reduction of poverty and all its vices especially- ignorance, illiteracy, diseases and dehumanising cultural practices, to pave way for a dignified and empowered community in North Eastern Province.
	womankindkenya.blogspot.com (1526 words)

	France, Japan Aid Drought-Hit Kenya
		Elders at the drought stricken village of El Wak in the north eastern province of Kenya slaughter 02 January 2006 what is left of their emaciated herds.
		The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said conditions in several of the country's best-known parks and reserves were such that animals, mainly elephants, were increasingly coming into conflict with residents of nearby villages and farms, posing risks to people and fauna.
		In March 2005, KWS said Kenya's elephant population had jumped by about 10 percent since 2002 to stand at about 30,000 as a result of a severe clampdown on poaching.
	www.terradaily.com /news/France_Japan_Aid_Drought_Hit_Kenya.html (954 words)

	Kenya Somali Community of North America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Marginalization of Kenya Somalis in North Eastern Province Kenya and the many Massacres.
		Hundreds of families of Wajir massacre are in the Bula Jogoo area of Wajir and are still in a state of destitution depending on relief aid.
		We continue to call on these countries and others to join us in denouncing the Kenya Government's lack of compensation for the victims of these massacres and finally to bring to justice the perpetrators of this crimes.
	www.kenyasomalis.org /news_NFD.htm (372 words)

	UNICEF - Kenya - Starvation grips northern Kenya
		NORTH EASTERN PROVINCE, Kenya, 12 January 2006 — Thousands of children are facing starvation due to deepening drought in northern Kenya.
		The government is distributing food rations to communities in the worst-affected areas and is appealing to the international community for urgent aid to save the lives of an estimated 2.5 million people.
		He and his friend Adow Abdi have travelled through the night on foot to reach the nearest waterhole in the town of Tarbach in Kenya’s North Eastern Province.
	www.unicef.org /rsstracker/news/infobycountry/kenya_30691.rhtml (582 words)

	Outbreak of Aflatoxin Poisoning --- Eastern and Central Provinces, Kenya, January--July 2004
		Additional case finding was conducted through similar patient interviews and retrospective record reviews in seven health facilities in adjacent districts of Eastern Province (Machakos, Embu, Mbeere, and Mwingi districts) and Central Province (Thika district) and at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi (Figure 1).
		The government of Kenya is providing replacement food in the most heavily affected districts: Makueni district (population: 771,545) and Kitui district (population: 515,422).
		Outbreak of acute hepatitis by aflatoxin poisoning in Kenya.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5334a4.htm (1792 words)

	Cricinfo - Eastern Province
		Eastern Province v Western Province at Port Elizabeth - Feb 12, 2006 scorecard
		Eastern Province v Northerns - Mar 8-11, 2001 scorecard
		Boland v Eastern Province - Mar 1-4, 2001 scorecard
	www.icc-cricket.com /india/content/team/3208.html (242 words)

	ICIPE - African Insect Science for Food and Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This activity, held 26 January-7 February 2003, aimed to provide farmers in Mwingi District, in the Eastern Province of Kenya, with skills and knowledge on effective methods of controlling the larger grain borer (LGB), a new pest of stored cereals in the area.
		The home is a self-help facility, and part of its land is used to produce vegetables, fruits, cereal crop, grain legumes, root crops and dairy cows to feed the children.
		This project was implemented in collaboration with Kenya Institute of Organic Farming, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Suba District.
	www.icipe.org /research_support_units/technology_transfer_unit/highlights2003.html (1776 words)

	Kenya - Country Information
		Whether you're planning a long awaited trip or just want to know more about a city, go4travel.com destination guide is the best place to start.
		Revered by anthropologists as the cradle of humanity, Kenya is wild and a little dangerous.
		If youre adventurous - and sensible - it promises the globes most magnificent wildlife parks, unsullied beaches, thriving coral reefs, memorable mountainscapes and ancient Swahili cities.The Swahili word safari (literally, journey) wouldnt mean much to most people if it wasnt for this East African adventure land.
	www.go4travel.com /Country/Kenya.htm (188 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In pictures: Kenya's drought
		More than three million Kenyans are facing serve food shortages, while 60% of crops have failed in five out of eight of the country's provinces.
		Beatrice Mwanzi lives in the rocky village of Nzeluni, in Kenya's Eastern province.
		Authorities in the district say 35% of households are going to be dependent on food aid over the next six months.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/shared/spl/hi/africa/04/photo_journal/africa_kenyas_drought/html/1.stm (76 words)

	The EastAfrican
		Earlier this year, when our government banned five Islamic NGOs operating in North Eastern Province, it caused a hue and cry among locals who had come to depend on these organisations for services the state is meant to provide.
		When sections of Rwanda's Hutu population fled into Zaire in 1994, the camps established in Kivu province by NGOs were so huge and sophisticated, some people spoke of them as a nation fed and maintained by relief agencies.
		In Kenya, where young urbanised and Westernised middle class prefer to avoid the untidiness of direct political involvement, clever young English speakers push their agenda via NGOs funded mainly by Western countries.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/2411/Opinion/Opinion4.html (571 words)

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