Prime Minister Raila Odinga will tomorrow, August 24, 2011, hold a session with ambassadors and high commissioners accredited to Kenya to brief them on the upcoming Conference on Horn of Africa Crisis.
The conference is an initiative of the Government of Kenya and is tentatively scheduled to take place September 8-9th 2011, in Nairobi.
The September conference will be attended by Heads of State and Government. It seeks to come up with long-term strategy to mitigate the effects of prolonged drought and food shortage in the Horn of Africa in the future.
it also seeks to address the especially complex and difficult component of the Horn of Africa’s humanitarian crisis, which is the high number of Somali refugees flowing into both Ethiopia and Kenya as a result of extreme climate-induced drought,the absence of a functioning central government in Somalia for over two decades and the presence of the anti-Western terrorist organization Al-Shabaab in south central Somalia.
The briefing session tomorrow will take place in the Office of the Prime Minister from 3PM. It will be followed by a media briefing by the PM and the ambassadors and high commissioners in attendance at 4 pm.
DENNIS ONYANGO
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