Doctors from the U.S.-based organization Clitoraid are in Nairobi this month performing restorative surgery on women who have undergone female genital mutilation, known as FGM. It's the first time this procedure has been done in Kenya. From Nairobi, VOA's Jill Craig has more.
UN says conflict has killed 82 aid workers and displaced 3.5 million people since December 2013
Sudan wants careful UNAMID exit strategy, but analysts believe mission still serves purpose and that abrupt cut could impact humanitarian assistance, civilian protection
World Food Program estimates 220,000 people could be helped by food convoys
Refugees receive plots of land, and can start businesses and have freedom of movement
More than 816,000 South Sudanese flee, citing violence and hunger at home
Six aid workers killed Saturday in transit between Juba and Pibor
Sudan's government refutes criticism, says it 'condemns any use of chemical weapons anywhere in the world'
Kenya dispatching military to disarm herders, restore order
Seven Samaritan’s Purse staff members flown out of Mayendit official tells VOA
New guidelines specify Somalis, Sudanese, others must wait 90 days for new visas, refugees must wait 120 days
Aid groups say resilience work is more effective with political security, stability
Conservation Biology has published Kenyan research indicating that elephants' natural aversions to bees mitigates human-wildlife conflict
Food insecurity rampant in South Sudan, but refugees in Uganda also face nutritional challenges
Insecurity to blame for relocation of 28 humanitarian workers in Mayendit, one of two counties in Unity State hit by famine
Amnesty International says much to be done to address impunity, persecution across continent
More than 100,000 people in two counties of Unity state are experiencing famine and there are fears that the famine will spread
Frustration builds in Laikipia as pastoralists illegally bring animals onto private and communal lands
Water levels have already dropped significantly, shoreline receding in Kenya's Lake Turkana
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