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Abandoned little angels

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The number of infants, mostly boys, abandoned at Kenyatta National Hospital is a major concern. The Children Act, 2001, outlaws adoption of boys by...

KENYA: Child deaths on the rise

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Saturday, November 22, 2008

NAIROBI Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (IRIN) - The number of children dying before their fifth birthday in Kenya has risen in the past 10 years,...

Joseph Lotaba - "I don't understand why my home was burnt"

IRIN

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Father-of-five Joseph Lotaba woke up on 6 March morning to fire and panic as a neighbouring village in Rift Valley's Laikipia West district went up...

Teresia Wamwitha: “We fled our home with only the clothes we had on”

IRIN

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

For four weeks, Teresia Wamwitha, 47, took refuge in the bush with 10 children - eight of her own and two of her sister’s, who died 10 years ago -...

Kenya's children face attacks, rape and displacement if violence flares up again

Save the Children

Sunday, March 09, 2008

Thousands more children risk being attacked, raped or forced to witness horrific atrocities if peace talks continue to flounder and there is a...

KENYA: IDP children falling through protection cracks

Monday, February 04, 2008

Violence in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru has seen the numbers of displaced at the town's largest camp skyrocket, but camp officials say it is...

GLOBAL: MSF urges new approach to malnutrition treatment

IRIN

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Médecins Sans Frontières has called for a radical shift in the way child malnutrition is treated across the world, saying therapeutic ready-to-use...

KENYA: Model to predict child malnutrition

IRIN

Friday, October 12, 2007

A group of economists working with data collected in Kenya's northern arid districts have developed a model to predict severe child malnutrition -...

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