l’horticulture rapporte plus que les safaris




L’horticulture, qui englobe toute activité économique liée aux fruits, légumes et fleurs, est devenue une des premières sources de richesse au Kenya. Ce pays, réputé jusqu’à aujourd’hui pour accueillir chaque année des milliers de touristes en quête de safaris exotiques, exploite donc au maximum ce secteur nouvellement rémunérateur. Ce boom dans l’économie s’explique non par une productivité accrue mais par la croissance des prix à l’exportation. Parmi les clients, l’Union Européenne s’intéresse aux produits frais, tandis que les pays scandinaves sont particulièrement friands des fleurs fraîches. Comme le thé, l’horticulture représente donc pour le Kenya une manne incontournable, employant deux millions d’employés, principalement des femmes.

A lethal mix of drought, expanding conflict,

rising food and energy prices, disease, and high poverty is pushing

children and their families in the Greater Horn of Africa to the brink

of disaster. Actions and policies are needed now to avert grave human

suffering.

In Kenya, an estimated 1.2 million people are in need of emergency food

assistance and many of those are children. Pastoralist populations in

the arid and semi-arid north are particularly affected, but food

insecurity is growing, an aftershock of the post- election violence

which displaced people (77,000 remain cut off from their farms and

livestock) and interrupted the agricultural cycle. High fuel and

agricultural input costs and disappointing rains in much of the country

are worsening the situation.

Throughout the Greater Horn, malnutrition is compounding the risks to

survival that children routinely face, including pneumonia, diarrhoeal

diseases and other infections. Recent years have seen an increase in

acute watery diarrhoea and cholera in many of these countries affecting

tens of thousands of children.



To stop and reverse the trends auguring another major humanitarian

disaster, the international community and donors will need to fully

support the responses of governments in the region to stabilize the

situation and enable timely and effective responses. Resources and

actions are required to ensure relief supplies and basic services,

including health care and sanitation for affected populations. And

systems are needed to clear and distribute food and non-food relief

supplies.



“By taking these critical actions, governments and their international

partners can make a huge difference in the coming months,”


SOURCE : United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)


voir : http://appablog.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/kenya-uganda-eritrea-djibouti-act-now-to-avert-impending-humanitarian-crisis-and-soaring-child-deaths-in-the-greater-horn-of-africa-unicef-urges/


"L'Afrique de l'Est victime d'un mélange mortel de calamités"

L'Afrique de l'Est est victime d'"un mélange mortel" de calamités, à base de guerres, de sécheresse et d'augmentation des prix, a averti mercredi le Fonds des Nations unies pour l'enfance (Unicef).

"Un mélange mortel de sécheresse, de conflits qui prennent de l'ampleur, d'augmentation des prix des produits alimentaires et de l'énergie, de maladies et de grande pauvreté pousse les enfants et leur famille au bord du désastre en Afrique de l'Est", estime l'Unicef dans un communiqué.

L'agence de l'ONU évalue à 1,2 million le nombre de personnes, dont de nombreux enfants, ayant besoin d'aide alimentaire d'urgence au Kenya.

voir : http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1505/Monde/article/detail/334205/2008/07/02/-L-Afrique-de-l-Est-victime-d-un-melange-mortel-de-calamites-.dhtml

THIS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE



I'm very sure, this never happened to me before
I met you and now I'm sure
This never happened before

Now I see, this is the way it's supposed to be
I met you and now I see
This is the way it should be

This is the way it should be, for lovers
They shouldn't go it alone
It's not so good when your on your own

So come to me, now we can be what we want to be
I love you and now I see
This is the way it should be
This is the way it should be

This is the way it should be, for lovers
They shouldn't go it alone
It's not so good when your on your own

I'm very sure, this never happened to me before
I met you and now I'm sure
This never happened before (This never happened before)
This never happened before (This never happened before)
This never happened before (This never happened before)
This never happened before

BY PAUL MC CARTNEY


Pour ecouter :


http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/13/1811927/Paul%20Mc%20Cartney.wma

Deja dans l'Antiquite romaine, les politiciens avaient pour slogan : Pour mieux diriger et regner, donnez des jeux au peuple.

Plus de deux mille annees plus tard, c'est toujours d'une efficacite evidente...

Rien ne mettra donc un frein a ce que je qualifierais, ou d'inertie, ou de betise humaine ???!!!

161 000 dollars US pour la préparation du Kenya aux JO de Pékin

Le gouvernement kenyan a annoncé, samedi, qu’il mettrait plus de 100 millions de shillings (161 000 dollars) à la disposition de ses athlètes pour leur permettre de préparer les Jeux olympiques (JO) et les Jeux paralympiques, prévus à Pékin, en Chine, en août prochain.

En annonçant la nouvelle à Nairobi, alors qu’il honorait de sa présence les préparatifs des Championnats nationaux d’athlétisme, le président de la République, Mwai Kibaki, a salué les bonnes performances de l’athlétisme kenyan sur le continent et sur la scène internationale.

« Je ne doute pas que la détermination de ces hommes et femmes nous permettront d’envoyer davantage de sportifs aux Jeux de Pékin », a-t-il ajouté, indiquant que tout sera mis en œuvre pour que la préparation des représentants kenyans se passe dans de bonnes conditions, afin de permettre au pays de remporter beaucoup de médailles aux JO 2008.

COMMENTAIRE : QUEL GASPILLAGE EHONTE !!!

Kenya appeals for UN food aid

Kenya is seeking more than a billion dollars in emergency funding from the United Nations, to counter a food crisis that has helped drive inflation to over 30 percent.

The money would be used to buy free fertilisers for farmers, and provide credit and other assistance to the fishing and livestock sectors.

Kenyan ministers will establish an Agricultural Development Fund which will receive an annual set share of the national budget in a bid to cushion the country's 35 million people from future shortages.

The food shortage has been worsened by months of post-election violence that killed 1,500 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.


Kenya is seeking more than a billion dollars in emergency funding from the United Nations, to counter a food crisis that has helped drive inflation to over 30 percent.

The money would be used to buy free fertilisers for farmers, and provide credit and other assistance to the fishing and livestock sectors.

Kenyan ministers will establish an Agricultural Development Fund which will receive an annual set share of the national budget in a bid to cushion the country's 35 million people from future shortages.

The food shortage has been worsened by months of post-election violence that killed 1,500 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.






Kenya is in urgent need of 1.1 billion dollars in emergency funding to tackle a food crisis that has driven inflation to over 30 percent.

The funds will be used to support the agricultural sector by buying farmers free fertilizers, creating credit lines and assisting the fish and livestock sectors.

Kenyan ministers are to establish an Agricultural Development Fund which will receive an annual set share of the national budget in a bid to cushion the country's 35 million people from future shortages.

Millions in Kenya are now in the midst of a food shortage worsened by months of post-election violence that killed 1,500 people, displaced hundreds of thousands and crippled the mainstay tourism and agricultural sectors.

If some serious steps are not taken to combat the current food crisis, it is likely to worsen as the Kenyan population continues to grow.

Three UN agencies have recently pledged 7.6 billion shillings to Kenya to help farmers and boost the school feeding program.

Steep global food and fuel prices have worsened overall inflation in the east African nation, pushing it to 31.5 percent in May, the highest since the mid-1990s when the economy nearly collapsed.

According to the World Food Program, the 50 percent rise in food prices in Kenya since the start of 2008 has led many people to drastically reduce their daily diets, eating only one meal a day, cutting down on protein-rich food and opting for cheaper vegetables such as kale.

Une triste realite, evoquee dana la presse kenyane de ce jour :

An illiterate society is an abomination


Just when Kenyans were showing off to the rest of the world how successfully they have implemented the ambitious free primary education programme, Education minister Sam Ongeri drops a bombshell.

It came as a rude shock when the minister revealed that close to half of Kenya’s 33 million people are illiterate, with the majority being youths in their most productive years.

Kenyans in general should be utterly alarmed that 39 per cent of youths aged between 15 and 25 years cannot read and write.

Immediate remedial measures are required since the education sector is a prime factor in achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015.

More so, the much-touted Vision 2030 might turn out to be a pipe-dream if half of the population will be largely illiterate. After all, young people comprise more than 60 per cent of the population.

While the minister has fingered poverty, the marginalisation of certain regions, and the high drop-out rate as some of the contributing factors, it would be prudent to look deeper into other issues that may contribute to such a sorry state.

The lack of education culture among Kenyans, and barriers to education due to traditional practices, must be tackled urgently.

Significantly, the high rate of the educated but unemployed youth has also led to negative thinking to the effect that education does not pay.

Entrenched corruption has also produced some very wealthy individuals, sending the wrong signals to impressionable youth that education is a waste of time.

An illiterate population in the 21st century is an abomination. It is an indictment of our value system as a society, and our education system.

It is now over 10 years since Kenyans started agitating for an overhaul of the education system to update the syllabus in keeping up with the market needs and social development. This has not happened.

However, such candour from a minister should give us hope. Now that he has recognised there is an urgent need, and he is in a position to do something about it, he should get moving with all deliberate speed.

Comment preparer le the de facon traditionnelle dans les villages Samburus....en l'absence d'electricite.... La collecte du bois est une tache ardue reservee aux femmes.

Jeune guerrier Samburu