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April 20, 2012 | Foreign Policy
Kenya: The Waste Land
For Nairobi's poorest, the enormous trash dump that's slowly killing them is also the only thing keeping them alive.
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April 13, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Dandora's Scavengers and Recyclers
Dandora, Nairobi's primary dumping site, is over capacity. Yet the willingness and ability of government officials to decommission it within the next five years remain in doubt.
March 28, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Dandora: Conflicting Views and Multiple Struggles
Debating the health, economic and political dimensions of Dandora: the Nairobi municipal dumpsite that takes in 2,000 tons of waste per day despite being declared "full" years ago.
March 13, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Kibera: Kenya's Settlement of the Stateless
In Kenya, the key issue of land ownership in Africa's largest slum raises other questions about the "stateless" status of the country's Nubian population.
March 09, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Kenya's Nubians: What's in a Name?
For Nubians living in Kenya, the traditional naming process is a generational rotation—and a source of confusion for some Kenyan bureaucrats.
March 09, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Kenya's Nubians
For decades, ethnic minority Nubians have lived as "Other Kenyans" or simply "Others." They’ve been denied many social, civil and economic rights, including title to the land once designated for them.
December 28, 2011 | PBS NewsHour
Scientists in Kenya Try to Fend Off Disease Threatening World's Wheat Crop
Ug99, a fungal disease known as wheat rust, could destroy 80 percent of all known wheat varieties. Scientists in Kenya's Rift Valley are joining a global fight against it.
December 28, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Resistant Wheat: Progress Steady But Slow
Experts in Kenya report steady advances in developing varieties of wheat resistant to the stem-rust disease that threatens an essential crop. But progress is slow—and the stakes are high.
November 26, 2011 | The New York Times
The Famine Next Time
Millions of people are starving unnecessarily in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The world knows how to prevent drought-induced famine. So why doesn’t it?
August 25, 2011 | Global Voices
Somalia: Food Security Emergency Spreads Despite Aid
Because of continuous armed conflict in Somalia, experts fear that conditions are likely to further deteriorate in the famine-stricken country.
August 12, 2011 | The Lancet
Humanitarian Response Inadequate in Horn of Africa Crisis
Despite drought warnings in the Horn of Africa, the international community was unprepared for what some experts say was "inevitable."
August 11, 2011 | TIME
Kenya: Desperate Times in a Perpetual Refugee City
The refugee crisis in Kenya is not new--it has developed and grown significantly since the eruption of Somalia's civil war in 1991.