News from Kenya, Dadaab refugee camp
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Kenya: possible new influx of refugees will worsen already dire situation for refugees in Dadaab
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned about the medical consequences following the recent public statements from Kenyan authorities exhorting thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya to leave urban areas…
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Taking mental healthcare to people who need it
In the refugee camps of Kenya and beyond, psychologists are an integral part of the teams of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). For World Mental Health Day, we look…
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Leaders must not fail refugees in Dadaab, the world’s largest camp
Dadaab: leaders must not fail refugees in the world’s largest camp Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls for immediate action Geneva, 1 October 2012 – This week, government leaders…
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Responding to influxes of Somali refugees in Dadaab, Kenya.
Just across the Somali border in northeast Kenya lies the town of Dadaab, home to what the United Nations has called the world’s largest refugee camp. There are actually three camps around Dadaab. Named Dagahaley, Ifo and Hagadera, they are a mass of shelters that are made of twigs, reeds and scraps and that serve as home to around 300,000 people.
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Having escaped the war, Somali refugees wait for a space in Kenya’s overcrowded refugee camps
Somali refugees, fleeing the fighting in their own country, continue to arrive in Dadaab, across the Kenyan border. The three vast refugee camps there are already too overcrowded to house…
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Kenya: urgent humanitarian assistance required for Somali refugees living outside Dagahaley camp
At least 700 Somali families who fled the war in Somalia now face unacceptable living conditions in spontaneous settlements outside the overcrowded refugee camp of Dagahaley in Kenya. The rainy season having just started, their situation has become even more precarious
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A Day in Dadaab- Four Somali refugees tell their stories
Having escaped the war, Somali refugees wait for a space in Kenya’s overcrowded refugee camps Somali refugees, fleeing the fighting in their own country, continue to arrive in Dadaab, across…
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The Forgotten Camps of Dadaab
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis who fled fighting in their homeland are stranded in overcrowded refugee camps just over the border, in Kenya, where MSF has been offering medical and psychological care.
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KENYA: A Day in Dadaab
MSF is still very concerned about the situation in one of the world’s most congested camp complex in Dadaab, in north-eastern Kenya. See video stories of some of the camps inhabitants.
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