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Better health as cure for insecurity in North Eastern Kenya

NAIROBI: For the community of Mandera, a remote northern frontier town in Kenya, long resigned to years of neglect, the pomp associated with hosting ambassadors for the first time was reason enough for optimism.

The ambassadors of Turkey, Sweden, the European Union, Denmark and Finland and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) executive director were in Mandera in November 2015 to launch a Community Life Centre and join the First Lady of Kenya for the Beyond Zero campaign.

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