Facts on the Kenyan crisis

I received your newsletter (Kenya Crisis: Action alerts at Pambazuka News/ Appeal on RapeCrisis Centres) and just wanted to say thanks for all the useful articles therein.

You may wish to alert your readers to the news service I work with in Nairobi. IRIN is part of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs but wholly independent editorially. As you will see from the website, we have been providing extensive coverage of the humanitarian aspects of the current crisis and will continue to do so as it unfolds (and, hopefully, subsides).

One issue in particular we are focusing on right now is the increase gender-based violence. If you had further contacts other than the ones noted in your mail, I’d be most grateful.

I would like to point out one factual inaccuracy in your mail: as of Monday, 7th January, there are between 4,000 and 5,000 IDPs in Jamhuri park, not 75,000.

Best regards

Anthony Morland
Senior Editor, East & Central Africa
IRIN - Humanitarian News & Analysis
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Tel: +254 20 762 2964
Mob: +254 738 220 009