Recent News Headlines : Dadaab - Kenya

I SPENT THE FIRST YEAR OF TRUMP'S PRESIDENCY VISITING ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMPS. HERE'S WHAT I SAW.


A few years ago, there were more plane trips to the United States than to Somalia... READ MORE

28th December, 2017 533

TRUMP'S NEW SUSPENSION OF REFUGEES LEAVES SOME AT RISK OF DYING, DOCTORS SAY


The United States is among the few countries in the world that gives priority to refugees with urgent medical conditions... READ MORE

26th December, 2017 3142

SOUTH AFRICAN ACTIVIST TO HEAD AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL


Renowned international rights group Amnesty International has chosen South African civil society leader, anti-apartheid campaigner and life-long activist Kumi Naidoo as the organisation's next Secretary General... READ MORE

22nd December, 2017 7

Trending News Headlines : Dadaab

SOMALIA ELECTS FIRST NEW PRESIDENT IN DECADES


The concession speech sent the new president's supporters into the streets singing and dancing, some waving Somalia flags and blowing horns... READ MORE

9th February, 2017 18704

TRUMP'S ORDER TO BAN REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS TRIGGERS FEARS ACROSS THE GLOBE


Some Sudanese refugees in Cairo have spent years in Egypt seeking resettlement to the United States and Europe... READ MORE

26th January, 2017 10401

2016: THE YEAR THE WORLD STOPPED CARING ABOUT REFUGEES


Deportations of Afghan refugees from Pakistan swelled this year, with 100,000 repatriated in September alone... READ MORE

29th December, 2016 8835

40 PERCENT OF SOMALIS DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOOD TO EAT


Many are returning to south-central Somalia, the nation's breadbasket, where poor rainfall has reduced cereal production to half the long-term average, the UN said... READ MORE

21st September, 2016 6406

5 STORIES FROM FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS WHO COVERED THE REFUGEE CRISIS


World Refugee Day 2017 5 stories from foreign correspondents who covered the refugee crisis... READ MORE

20th June, 2017 4863

'IT WAS THE HAPPIEST MOMENT': ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO TOOK RISKY CENTRAL AMERICAN CORRIDOR CROSS INTO CANADA


After careful research, Ahmed Omar and Abdi Omar decided to travel to Tijuana to jump the wall that separates Mexico from the United States on April 9, 2017... READ MORE

10th July, 2017 3980

WHY WON'T THE WORLD TACKLE THE REFUGEE CRISIS?


Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece have cited a lack of support from other countries for forcing them to take restrictive action on Syrian and Afghan refugees... READ MORE

18th September, 2016 3233

KENYA COURT QUASHES GOVERNMENT ORDER TO CLOSE DADAAB


In June, Somalia's ambassador to the US critisised the plan and said it would damage relations between Kenya and Somalia... READ MORE

9th February, 2017 2111

WHY KENYA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ON AUGUST 8 MATTERS


South Sudan is at the mercy of the elections in Kenya... READ MORE

2nd August, 2017 1242

AMINA MOHAMED RESPONDS TO QUESTIONS ON ETHNIC SOMALIS FACING DISCRIMINATION IN KENYA, AND THE WAR AGAINST AL-SHABAB.


Reports that suggest ethnic Somalis living in Kenya are being increasingly targeted, detained, and tortured are entirely false, the country's foreign minister says... READ MORE

7th October, 2016 949

INSIDE THE WORLD'S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP, ONE MAN'S QUEST TO EXPLAIN DONALD TRUMP TO THOSE NOW BANNED FROM AMERICA


Mohammed Rashid talks to two young women who also applied for refugee status in the United States... READ MORE

4th February, 2017 709

KENYA DELAYS DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP CLOSURE BY SIX MONTHS


'Forcible returns are illegal' Since sending troops into neighbouring Somalia in 2011, Kenya has come under repeated attacks from the al-Shabab armed group... READ MORE

16th November, 2016 539

THE LARGE-SCALE TRAGEDIES THAT MOSTLY WENT UNNOTICED AND 5 OTHER GLOBAL STORIES


As Europe debates how to stop the influx of African refugees, many continue to dream of a better life abroad... READ MORE

31st August, 2017 528

KENYA ASKS FOR HELP LOCATING 'BLOODTHIRSTY' MILITANTS


Others said Muslims, like all Kenyans, must cooperate with authorities, pointing to another terror attack near Dadaab camp for refugees 10 miles from Garissa University on Thursday... READ MORE

3rd April, 2015 498

EXPLAINER COULD YOU LIVE IN A REFUGEE CAMP


Some people in Kakuma refugee camp are resettled in other countries, but many have lived in the camp for more than 20 years... READ MORE

30th July, 2015 468

KENYAN COURT BLOCKS PLAN TO CLOSE DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP


Within hours of the ruling, the Kenyan government vowed to appeal, arguing that the situation in Somalia had improved and the refugees could return... READ MORE

10th February, 2017 423

RECORD REFUGEE CRISIS HITS ALL PARTS OF GLOBE


That amounts to 55 million people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency... READ MORE

20th November, 2015 404

RICHEST NATIONS HOST 'UNDER 9% OF REFUGEES'


Oxfam poorest nations shouldering responsibility for world's refugees... READ MORE

18th July, 2016 319

WHERE ARE THE WORLD'S NEWEST CITIES ... AND WHY DO THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME?


This strikingly inapposite quality among the new African cities can be traced to a few factors... READ MORE

28th January, 2016 238

1.4 MILLION CHILDREN COULD DIE AND THE WORLD ISN'T DOING ENOUGH


South Sudan famine 1.4 million children could die and the world isn't doing enough... READ MORE

26th February, 2017 183

KENYAN COURT BLOCKS PLANS TO DISMANTLE ONE OF WORLD'S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMPS


Kenya claims the Dadaab camp is a foothold for Islamist militants from Somalia... READ MORE

9th February, 2017 135

KENYA SAYS IT WILL SHUT WORLD'S BIGGEST REFUGEE CAMP AT DADAAB


The border is porous and people pushed back across it might return again to Kenya... READ MORE

11th May, 2016 119

KENYA SAYS IT WILL CLOSE ALL REFUGEE CAMPS, DISPLACING 600,000 PEOPLE


Dadaab, a sprawling series of settlements 80 miles inside Kenya from the border with Somalia, is the world's largest refugee camp and is nearing its 25th anniversary... READ MORE

9th May, 2016 86

AUTHORITIES HUNT FOR AL-SHABAAB KILLERS FOLLOWING THE COUNTRY'S WORST TERROR ATTACK IN OVER 15 YEARS


Kenya Garissa university attack Authorities hunt for al-Shabaab killers following the country's worst terror attack in over 15 years... READ MORE

4th April, 2015 85

KENYA'S PLAN TO SHUT DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP CRITICISED


The Kenyan government's plan to close the Dadaab refugee camp is logistically impractical, according to Somalia's ambassador to the US... READ MORE

3rd June, 2016 72

KENYA GARISSA UNIVERSITY ATTACK: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT AL-SHABAAB LEADER MOHAMED MOHAMUD NAMED AS MASTERMIND BEHIND THE ATROCITY?


Shortly before Christmas, Kenyan police circulated images of two terror suspects with a reward offered for any information leading to their arrests... READ MORE

2nd April, 2015 66

KENYA TO CLOSE ALL REFUGEE CAMPS, DISPLACING 600,000


Those due to close include Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world, home to more than 300,000 people on the Kenya-Somalia border... READ MORE

11th May, 2016 59

EAST AFRICAN LEADERS CALL FOR SOMALIA AID


Heads of state from the Horn of Africa have appealed for funding to help solve Somalia's refugee crisis... READ MORE

26th March, 2017 56

WORLD'S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP AVOIDS SHUTDOWN


In addition, Mativo said the Kenyan government has not proved Somalia is safe for the refugees... READ MORE

9th February, 2017 52

AI WEIWEI TAKES EPIC DOCUMENTARY ON REFUGEES TO GLITZY VENICE


But in that moment he is just an irrepressible little boy with new boots... READ MORE

1st September, 2017 52


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