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Somali refugees learn to live together in new tented town rising in Kenya

Somali refugees learn to live together in new tented town rising in Kenya A delicate lattice of community begins to take hold among the thousands of refugees who inhabit the white tents of the Ifo Extension in northern Kenya. UNHCR | The UN Refugee Agency Humanitarian situation improving in Ethiopia, continued challenges in Somalia Together [...]

World Humanitarian Day: People helping people

World Humanitarian Day: People helping people Humanitarian aid workers around the world honour the sacrifice and devotion to duty that mark their work on behalf of the world’s neediest people. UNHCR | The UN Refugee Agency Ethiopia In Ethiopia, UNHCR has deployed an emergency team to the Gode area, some 250 kilometres north of the [...]

UNHCR distributes pioneering smart ID cards to refugees in India

The new ID cards have an electronic chip that contains information about the holder, including biographical details. Some 18,000 will be distributed. UNHCR | The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR addresses “alarming” level of child mortality in Ethiopian camp About 10 children under five have been dying every day in Kobe camp since June. Malnutrition is [...]

UNHCR readies for transfer of Somali refugees to new camp areas

Tents and infrastructure put in place at the Kambioos camp in Kenya as UNHCR moves more Somali refugees into another section of Dadaab. UNHCR | The UN Refugee Agency

Horn of Africa crisis – humanitarian update

Kenya Amid continuing high numbers of arrivals of people fleeing drought, famine and conflict in Somalia, the UN refugee agency will this weekend start to move Somali refugee families… UNHCR | The UN Refugee Agency

UNHCR helps relocate Somali refugees to new camp in eastern Ethiopia

UNHCR and its partners begin the relocation of nearly 15,000 Somali refugees who have been living in a transit centre in the eastern region of Dollo Ado. UNHCR | The UN Refugee Agency