Land and Conflict Sensitive Journalism sumaries

Sub-Category : IDPs

Minister: We have no cash for IDPs

Standard Pg 24
Tuesday, 16 Oct 2012

The Ministry of Special Programmes has run out of funds to resettle displaced people. Special Programmes Minister Esther Murugi yesterday said the ministry had no capacity to settle over 350,000 displaced persons. Murugi said for

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Slaying the Dragon of Tribalism

Daily Nation pg 17
Friday, 16 Nov 2012

Negative ethnicity is one of the biggest obstacles on Kenya’s road to rapid development. Ethnicity refers to the differentiation of members of a society along characteristics usually considered natural, such as place of orig

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Mau leader rejects deal to settle IDPs on Rose Farm

The Star Pg 17
Wednesday, 31 Oct 2012

Leaders from Mau Narok have objected to fresh attempts by the government to resettle internal refugees on the 2,400-acre Rose Farm. The leaders disowned an agreement between National Heritage minister William ole Ntimama and Lands

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IDPS say “ghost” Victims listed for Compensation

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Tuesday, 30 Oct 2012

Internally Displaced Persons in Nyanza have accused the provincial Administration  of profiling non-existent IDPs for compensation. They claim the administrators have enlisted their relatives and close friends who were never

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IDPs want Raila and Kibaki charged

Daily Nation pg 5
Friday, 26 Oct 2012

Some Internally Displaced Persons want President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga included on the list of suspects to be tried at The Hague. The prosecutor who was responding to speakers promised to incorporate the evidence

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Bensouda comes face to face with IDPs’ misery

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Friday, 26 Oct 2012

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda confronted the horrors of internally displaced persons from the 2008 post-election violence. She also announced the Government has promised to deliver information on bank acco

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IDPs move into farm after efforts to stop them fail

Standard Pg 20
Thursday, 25 Oct 2012

The impasse over the resettlement of IDPs at a farm in Njoro, Nakuru County, has been resolved. The IDPs from Pipeline camp in Nakuru were relieved after attempts to block them from being resettled on the 1,200-acre farm in Njoro

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Poll Chaos Church now Centre for Peace

Daily Nation pg 3
Wednesday, 24 Oct 2012

Now Kiambaa Unity and Reconciliation Church, whose construction started in July 2008, is replacing the former church. And the new church has played a key role in pushing the peace agenda in the Uasin Gishu District that bore the b

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