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21 February 2012 This year is the 20th anniversary of the world's biggest refugee camp, Dadaab in north-eastern Kenya. UNHCR, which manages the Dadaab complex, set up the first camps there between ...
To make matters worse, UNHCR spokesman Boris Cheshirkov ... than half a million refugees and asylum seekers in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps and urban areas for over three decades.
Dadaab is Africa's biggest refugee camp, home to at least 350,000 Somali refugees The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has warned Kenya not to expel Somali refugees in response to al-Shabab's ...
DADAAB REFUGEE COMPLEX, Kenya -- Mohamed Omar Abdille ... Mohamed was called with other refugees to move into the transit camp UNHCR had set up at Hagadera in preparation for transfer to Mogadishu.
UNHCR’s “sustainable and rights-based ... Matiang’i said. Kenya has said the Dadaab refugee camp near the Somalia border is a source of insecurity. Some officials have argued that it has ...
The communique of the June meeting said nothing about the fate of the other estimated 190,000 refugees in the camps. UNHCR's silence, combined with Kenyan government statements that Dadaab will be ...
The Dadaab and the Kakuma refugee camps in northern Kenya together host ... Fred Matiang’i, the interior minister, has now given the UNHCR 14 days to draw up a plan for the closure of both ...
Yet, it has had only a handful of protection officers for the entire Dadaab refugee population. In addition, the UNHCR officers are not based in the camps but in the UNHCR office in Dadaab town. This ...
More than 720,000 refugees in Dadaab, Kakuma, and Kalobeyei camps are bracing for a food crisis after the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announced the worst cut in food assistance ever ...
GENEVA, 21 February (UNHCR) - This year is the 20th anniversary of the world's biggest refugee camp, Dadaab in north-eastern Kenya. UNHCR, which manages the Dadaab complex, set up the first camps ...
The Dadaab and the Kakuma refugee camps in northern Kenya together host ... Fred Matiang’i, the interior minister, has now given the UNHCR 14 days to draw up a plan for the closure of both ...
After that they will be issued with food like other refugees in the camp,” Leonard Zulu, UNHCR’s senior protection coordinator in Dadaab, told Al Jazeera. When asked why the new arrivals had ...