The camps resemble naturally-grown towns and have developed into commercial hubs connecting north-eastern Kenya and southern Somalia. The Ifo 2 Settlement has now been developed to support rising ...

Kakuma Refugee Camp is located in the North-western region of Kenya. The camp was established in 1992 following ... fled their country following the fall of the Ethiopian government. Somalia had also ...

If the president behaves the same as last time, all these people will attempt illegal immigration, and they will all drown ...

“I’m not Kenyan, because I need Kenya to give me a birth certificate,” she explained. “So I’m not Kenyan, nor Somali. I’m a refugee.” While Fardowsa has been trained as a radio journalist, she is not ...

Inside the world’s largest Refugee camp In Northern Kenya ... initiated plans to create a buffer zone between Kenya and Somalia, 700 km wall running from Kiunga in Lamu County to Mandera ...

A former Somali refugee intent on bringing books and education to his compatriots languishing in sprawling camps in Kenya was on Tuesday named the winner of the UN refugee agency's prestigious ...

Most of the world’s refugees and internally displaced persons live in towns and cities, while donors and aid agencies channel ...

Twenty-two refugees, and hundreds more in the pipeline, were told last week that their previously approved relocation to ...

Like most refugee camps, Kharaz was set up as a temporary fix, a place where the basic needs of Somali refugees could be met until the violence in Somalia died down allowing them to return home.

This as-told-to essay is based on two conversations with Suud Olat, a former refugee from Somalia based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and recipient of the Minnesota Department of Human Services ...

Learn how the IRC team in Kenya's Kakuma camp, now home to some 194,000 refugees, is helping people stay safe. IRC teams in Bangladesh, Greece, and around the world are working around the clock to ...