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News Deeply
April 25, 2018
The flooding risks causing an outbreak of disease in Dadaab, the sprawling complex of camps that houses some 250,000 mostly Somali refugees, according to aid group Save the Children. “Children are children and they want to play in the water, which is practically toxic. They don't realise it could be fatal,”Ãâà...
Hivisasa
April 23, 2018
Refugees living in Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County have been displaced by flash floods following heavy rains that pounded the area. The heavy rains have destroyed hundreds of homes in the camp leaving many refugees homeless and cutting off road access to the camp. Mr. Caleb OdhiamboÃâà...
Voice of America
April 18, 2018
I have been accepted to @Princeton (Class of 2022) and it feels surreal. Many people, in Dadaab and beyond, made this possible and I am indebted to all, but it was my sister Maryan who first let me dream and tended to my life as one would for a seedling. Thank you, Maryan. pic.twitter.com/O8HYQ1pLO6.
K24 TV
April 15, 2018
Evelyn Makena @evemake_g. Rukia Waqo helplessly looks down at her 10-month-old son as he convulses in loud sobs. He is inconsolable and wriggles his fragile frame in discomfort even as the mother gently rocks him. While she is engrossed in calming down the distraught child, a small camera roamsÃâà...
Eyewitness News
April 9, 2018
Despair is also growing in the Dadaab camp in eastern Kenya, where most of the 235,000 refugees are from Somalia, aid groups say. The IRC, which runs the camp's largest hospital and provides mental health services, said the number of cases of depression at Dadaab had almost doubled from 2016 toÃâà...
Voice of America
April 4, 2018
Last August, Asad Hussein boarded the back of a truck in Dadaab, Kenya, sitting with other passengers among sacks of beans being transported to Somalia's capital. The truck headed east across the desert over the Somali border and deep into territory controlled by al-Shabab, the violent extremist group,Ãâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 29, 2018
The United Nations refugee agency predicts that many more Somalis in the Dadaab camps will seek repatriation to their homeland in the coming months. That forecast is based on the reopening of the road from the Liboi border station in Kenya to Dhobley, a town inside Somalia. 75,000. The route hadÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 29, 2018
The United Nations refugee agency predicts that many more Somalis in the Dadaab camps will seek repatriation to their homeland in the coming months. That forecast is based on the reopening of the road from the Liboi border station in Kenya to Dhobley, a town inside Somalia. 75,000. The route hadÃâà...
Daily Nation
March 27, 2018
The United Nations refugee agency predicts that many more Somalis in the Dadaab camps will seek repatriation to their homeland in the coming months. ... The Kenyan government announced three years ago that it would shut down Dadaab because the camps were infiltrated by Al-Shabaab fighters.
Reliefweb
March 26, 2018
A total of 75,175 returnees have so far been supported from Dadaab Refugee operation under the framework of voluntary repatriation since the beginning of the process in December 2014. 2,463 individuals from Dadaab have been assisted to return in 2018 alone, with a majority returning to Kismayu andÃâà...
UN News
March 22, 2018
This young mother walked 20 days from Diinsoor, Somalia, with her seven children to Hagadera refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. After her husband's livestock died because of the drought in Somalia, he sent her to Dadaab because he was unable to feed them. (file photo). 22 March 2018. Humanitarian Aid. Driven largelyÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 21, 2018
With deteriorating drought conditions in Somalia and reduced humanitarian funding to Dadaab over the past years, there is a need to strengthen the information of the humanitarian needs, intentions and movement of the population in order to enable informed programme planning by partners working onÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
March 20, 2018
Aid workers wade through the flooded sections of Liboi road to Dadaab refugee camps following heavy rains that has pounded the area on November 23, 2016. Photo/Jack owuor. Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ Google+ Ãâ÷ WhatsApp Ãâ÷ Email. Northern Kenya is caught in an ironic vicious cycle. The region bore the bruntÃâà...
Daily Nation
March 20, 2018
Kenya is considered an island of peace and tranquillity in the greater Horn of Africa comprising of the troubled Somalia, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea and the majority of these refugees are hosted at Dadaab and Kakuma camp. A United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report saysÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 12, 2018
With deteriorating drought conditions in Somalia and reduced humanitarian funding to Dadaab over the past years, there is a need to strengthen the information of the humanitarian needs, intentions and movement of the population in order to enable informed programme planning by partners working onÃâà...
Radio Ergo (blog)
March 12, 2018
(ERGO) – Halima Haji (not her real name), a Somali refugee living in Kenya's Dadaab camps, has suffered from fistula for 22 years and faces a miserable life ahead of her with no immediate hope of treatment. Halima, in her early 50s and from Afmadow in Lower Juba, has raised her children alone afterÃâà...
International Rescue Committee
March 8, 2018
My name is Miriam. I was born in Somalia. My family fled the war in 1992 when I was one year old, and I have lived in Dadaab refugee camp—one of the largest in the world—since then. Now, I work for the International Rescue Committee. Every day, I work to protect women and girls from violence.
Radio Ergo (blog)
February 22, 2018
(ERGO) – Somali refugee leaders from the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya have been taken by the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, on a 'Go and See' visit to Mogadishu and Baidoa in southern Somalia. UNHCR says the initiative is intended to inform refugees about the situation on the ground in SomaliaÃâà...
Amnesty International
February 20, 2018
It has been a year since the Kenyan government's plan to shut down Dadaab refugee camp was scuppered. The High Court deemed the decision un-constitutional and ordered the government to continue giving asylum to new refugees. But if anyone thought the landmark ruling would herald the end ofÃâà...
Daily Nation
February 19, 2018
Somali refugees fetching water in Dadaab. ... It has been a year since the government's plan to shut down Dadaab refugee camp was scuppered. ... It is becoming apparent that the Refugee Affairs Secretariat, which is meant to register refugees, is only concerned with reducing their numbers in Dadaab.
The Standard
January 28, 2018
The Dadaab refugee camp is home to thousands of refugees, most of whom have spent half of their lives in the world's biggest refugee camp. Since the Kenyan government announced its plans to shut down the camp, several refugees have voluntarily exited, threatening to leave the camp isolated.
Daily Nation
December 22, 2017
Dadaab refugee camp. Two refugees defied all odds to score high grades in ... Two refugees defied all odds to score high grades in the 2017 KCSE examination despite numerous challenges in the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in Garissa County. Abdiweli Jama Hussein and Abdirahman HusseinÃâà...
Daily Nation
December 14, 2017
Thursday December 14 2017. Dadaab refugee complex. Dadaab refugee camp on July 24, 2011. Operations at the camp have resumed after days of disruption following protests by locals. PHOTO | PHIL MOORE | AFPÃâà...
Times LIVE
December 13, 2017
Over the past month Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp has marked several important events. More than 3,400 children from over 30 primary schools sat for Kenya's national primary school examination. A new courthouse was also opened to help refugees resolve disputes. It's hard to imagine that less than aÃâà...
Daily Nation
December 6, 2017
Dadaab residents protesting at the main gate of the UNHCR headquarters on November 30, 2017. International staff working for UNHCR are stranded in Dadaab as a standoff between the refugee agency and the host communities entered its sixth day Wednesday. PHOTO | ABDIMALIK HAJIR | NATIONÃâà...
The Standard
November 30, 2017
Operations in Dadaab refugee camp were brought to stand still as angry residents took to the streets demanding the closure of the camp and urgent relocation of the refugees. Hundreds of locals carrying placards lit borne fires at the main gate of United Nation and its agencies headquarters haltingÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
Friday 20 April 2018. Heavy rains and flash flooding in northern Kenya have destroyed homes, displaced thousands, and left tens of thousands at risk of waterborne diseases such as cholera—including in Dadaab, one of the world's largest refugee camps. In Mandera county, at least 750 homes were sweptÃâà...
Radio Ergo (blog)
December 31, 1999
(ERGO) – Nimo Mahad Samatar and her seven children have been sleeping out in the cold for 10 days, since being told to prepare for the closure of IFO2 camp in the Dadaab refugee camp complex in north-eastern Kenya. The rains have begun, on and off, and already the family has been outside duringÃâà...
UN News
December 31, 1999
Dadaab currently has a population of 226,472 registered refugees and asylum seekers. Somalis account for some 96 per cent of the residents of the four camps that make up the complex. The first camp was established in 1991, when refugees fleeing the civil war in Somalia started to cross the border intoÃâà...
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
Dadaab, 12 April 2018 - Meeting residents of the world's largest camp for Somali refugees, located in north-eastern Kenya, the top United Nations official for Somalia today expressed his solidarity with their situation and highlighted the gradual progress made in their home country. “Every refugee has toÃâà...
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
In the Dadaab refugee camps, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and CARE International (CARE) have developed a comprehensive case management approach to address the needs of GBV survivors. Both humanitarian agencies implement programmes in Dadaab that aim to both respond to andÃâà...
Radio Ergo (blog)
December 31, 1999
(ERGO) – An influx of around 600 people fleeing remote parts of southern Somalia's Middle Juba region arrived over the last three weeks in one of the refugee camps in Dadaab, northeastern Kenya, where they have been unable to register as refugees to get assistance. The refugee leader of IFO2 camp,Ãâà...
Fergus Falls Daily Journal
December 31, 1999
We will show the documentary, “Warehoused: The Forgotten Refugees of Dadaab,” on Thursday, March 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Legacy Hall, Minnesota State Community and Technical College, 1414 College Way, Fergus Falls. “Warehoused” sheds light on the daily life of refugees in Dadaab, Kenya, including aÃâà...
