admin November 6th, 2009
The United Nations is warning that up to 750,000 people in Kenya, nearly half of them Somali refugees, could be caught up in flooding and landslides from heavy rains expected to peak in November.
The people most at risk are the 300,000 mainly Somali refugees in the Kakuma and Dadaab camps. Kakuma is in northwestern Kenya and Dadaab in the east on the border with Somalia. The overcrowded Dadaab complex of three camps was built to hold some 90,000 people but its population has swollen to three times that, in the process becoming home to more refugees than any other site in the world, according to the UNHCR.
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Tags: cholera, Floods, Kenya, Somalia, UNHCR, WHO
admin September 14th, 2009
UNHCR reported last week that its Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, had visited Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp situated on the Kenya-Somali border on Saturday. Describing the camp as ‘one of the most dire’ she had seen, Jolie concluded her visit by asking “if this is the better solution, then what must it be like in Somalia?”
During her day-long visit, Jolie visited one of the three camps that together host around 285,000 refugees. She met a number of families including a mother just arrived in the camp, after walking for days with her three young children to flee war-torn Somalia.
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Tags: Angelina Jolie, Oxfam, Somalia, UNHCR
