On the afternoon of July11, 2012, an IAS team was traveling back from a water and education assessment project in the region of Galkayo in Puntland, Somalia. Having completed a long day of work, the IAS team (three Kenyan nationals and a local Somali IAS worker) was traveling in two vehicles, the first being an [...]
Famine and drought have once again hit East Africa, leaving some ten million Africans, many nomadic, fighting for survival. In Kenya, rains that have failed for the past two years have left approximately 2.4 million Kenyans at risk of starvation. IAS began emergency intervention in Kenya on June 29 among the Kamba people of the [...]