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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Thu Jun 30 2011 - 17:31:40 EDT
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Regional drought causing ‘alarming’ overcrowding at Kenyan refugee camp: UN
30 June 2011 –
The United Nations humanitarian agency reported today that the numbers of
new arrivals of Horn of Africa drought victims at an already overcrowded
refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya is growing “at alarming rates.”
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA<http://ochaonline.un.org/>)
said: “The overcrowded Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa continues to receive
new arrivals at alarming rates. The current number of registered refugees –
353,921 – is four times its capacity. Twenty thousand people have arrived in
the last two weeks alone.”
The site is the largest refugee camp in the world.
Earlier this week OCHA estimated that 10 million people across the Horn of
Africa are facing a severe food crisis following a prolonged drought in the
region, with some areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and
Uganda, experiencing their worst drought conditions in 60 years.
The Kenyan Government has declared the drought situation a national
disaster, with malnutrition mortality rates in northern Kenya exceeding
emergency thresholds, OCHA reported.
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