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Assist International in Kenya:
January 28, 2008: Report on the Recent Violence in Kenya...It has been reported by several sources that the death count is over 800. An additional 250,000 have fled, mostly to neighboring Uganda. The largest single loss of life was when an Assemblies of God church providing shelter from the violence to 200 people was set on fire by rioters, burning 35 people to death, most of them women and children.
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Kenya faces profound environmental challenges brought on by high population growth, deforestation, shifting climate patterns, and the overgrazing of cattle in marginal areas in the north and west of the country. Significant portions of the population will continue to require emergency food assistance in the coming years.
Population estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.)
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Area: 224,960 sq mi.; slightly smaller than Texas
Capital: Nairobi (pop. 2.9 million; 2007 est.)
Population: 36.9 million
Government: Republic
Very high degree of risk for some major infectious diseases:
Food or Waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
Vectorborne disease: malaria is a high risk in some locations
Water contact disease: schistosomiasis
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