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Red Cross seeks $23m for Kenya
27/03/2008 10:35 - (SA)
Nairobi - The Kenya Red Cross Society on Wednesday appealed for $23m to help resettle hundreds of thousands of people displaced by post-election violence.
Secretary-General Abbas Gullet said the cash would help rebuild houses, provide seeds for planting and food for long-term relief for the displaced families scattered in the capital and western region.
"The government has a resettlement plan, but humanitarian organisations should assist them. The task of resettlement requires a lot of co-operation," Gullet said.
He said the agency had received $10m after asking for $14m in January at the height of tribal fighting and revenge killings that were sparked by the disputed December 27 general elections.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga accused President Mwai Kibaki of rigging the polls, touching off a deadly wave of violence that claimed at least 1 500 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands.
The pair reached a power-sharing deal on February 28, which was subsequently enacted, but the feuding camps were yet to set up a coalition government and divvy up cabinet posts.
Kibaki and Odinga planned to visit the displaced in camps mainly in the Rift Valley region, officials said.
Agriculturalists had warned that the country faced a grain shortage in the coming months because food reserves were destroyed and insecurity had blocked farming in the breadbasket area.
- AFP
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