Kenya 2000 people death

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A mural about mental health and climate issues in Nairobi’s Kibera slum. There were 483 suicides recorded in Kenya in three months. Photograph: Gordwin Odhiambo/AFP/Getty A mural about mental health and climate issues in Nairobi’s Kibera slum. There were 483 suicides recorded in Kenya in three months. Photograph: Gordwin Odhiambo/AFP/Getty The youngest person to take their life was nine years old; the oldest 76. The 483 deaths recorded during the period were a marked increase on the annual average of about 320 cases, the George Kinoti, who heads the police directorate of criminal investigations, said: “We have never recorded such a high number of suicides before and this is not only alarming but calls for urgent remedial measures.” No reasons have been given for the increase by the Kenyan authorities but a Last year the The organisation linked the rise in cases to mental ill-health caused by a breakdown in socio-economic safeguards, saying it was the “last resort and path of escape for individuals with unaddressed mental health needs”. “Research has shown that structural determinants of mental ill-health such as extreme poverty, lack of access to empowerment opportunities and discrimination increase the likelihood of individuals committing suicide,” the KNHCR said. “Unfortunately, suicide prevention measures in Kenya have often failed to address these root causes and instead incorporated fewer effective approaches, including punitive measures.” Data from the Eddy Kimani, a...

Authors • Veronicah Mbaire Chuchu PhD Candidate, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi • Mutono Nyamai Post-doctoral research scientist, Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Nairobi • Philip Kitala Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nairobi • Thumbi Mwangi Co-Director, Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA), University of Nairobi. Chancellors Fellow, Institute of Immunonology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh. Associate Professor, Paul G Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University Disclosure statement Veronicah Mbaire Chuchu receives funding from the Fogarty International Center and the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. Thumbi Mwangi receives funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, World Health Organization, Wellcome Trust, UK MRC and EPSRC. Mutono Nyamai and Philip Kitala do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Partners Rabies – a viral disease spread through an animal bite – has had an Africa accounts for The country is implementing a Kenya’s rabies elimination strategy, launched in 2014, combines mass dog vaccination, prompt provision of rabies vaccines, public education, and enhanced surveillance of the disease in ...

FILE - Police and local residents load the exhumed bodies of victims of a religious cult into the back of a truck in the village of Shakahola, near the coastal city of Malindi, in southern Kenya on April 23, 2023. The number of people who died after a Kenyan pastor ordered his followers to starve to death in order to meet Jesus is at more than 300, authorities said Tuesday June 13, 2023, and the death toll is expected to rise as more exhumations are planned. (AP Photo, File) (Uncredited/AP)

• v • t • e The 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis was a violent political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that erupted in In part due to the ethnic and geographic diversity of Kenyan politics, no singular narrative can explain the reaction of opposition supporters to the announcement of Kibaki's swearing-in, which was done on December 30, 2007, in the evening. The opposition announced a mass protest against the official results, the violence was largely stoked by the police. Targeted ethnic violence (as opposed to violent protests) escalated and at first was directed mainly against Kikuyu people—the community of which Kibaki is a member—living outside their traditional settlement areas, especially in the In Mombasa, the Kenyan coastal residents took to the streets to protest the electoral manipulations and support their preferred candidate, Odinga. Tensions rose as the landless indigenous Coastal communities felt this was a time to avenge the grabbing of their land by mainly up–country Kikuyu. Looters also struck a number of stores in Mombasa. The slums of Nairobi saw some of the worst violence, some of it ethnically motivated, some expression of outrage at extreme poverty, and some the actions of criminal gangs. The violence continued sporadically for several months, particularly in the Rift Valley. Former Background [ ] The post-election demonstration and violence stemmed from a mixture of motives. Some included: • Voting in elections has widely been along ethnic lines in many ...