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Dadaab (Somali: Dhadhaab) is a semi-arid town in Garissa County, Kenya. It is the site of a UNHCR base hosting 302,805 registered refugees and asylum seekers as of 31 October 2023, [ 1 ] in four camps (Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo, and Ifo 2), [ 2 ] making it one of the largest in the world behind Kutupalong refugee camp .
Hagadera was established in 1992 and is the third oldest camp in the North-Eastern Province of Kenya. It is the largest camp under the Dadaab operation and is managed by the UNHCR Field Office Alinjugur. [ 2] The population has decreased by over 45,000 in the last verification exercise. Most of the new arrivals are residing with relatives ...
Refugee camp (located in present-day eastern Congo-Kinshasa) for Rwandans following the Rwandan genocide of 1994. A camp in Guinea for refugees from Sierra Leone. Nahr el-Bared, Palestinian refugee camp in North Lebanon in 2005. Mitzpe Ramon, development camp for Jewish refugees, southern Israel, 1957. A refugee camp is a temporary settlement ...
Turkana County. Population. • Total. ~200,000. Kakuma Refugee Camp is a refugee camp located in northwestern Turkana County, Kenya. It was established in 1992 to host unaccompanied minors who had fled the war in Sudan and from camps in Ethiopia. The camp is situated in the second poorest region in Kenya and as a result of this poverty, there ...
Delivery driver Joe Dean finished a life-changing week at the Magical Kenya Open with a closing 67 as he finished in a tie for second behind Darius van Driel in Nairobi.
Children are also exploited in sex trafficking by people working in khat (a mild narcotic) cultivation areas, near gold mines in western Kenya, by truck drivers along major highways, and by fishermen on Lake Victoria. Kenyans are recruited by legal or illegal employment agencies or voluntarily migrate to Europe, the United States, Southeast ...
Garissa County is an administrative county in Kenya. It is located in Eastern Kenya bordering Somalia to the East, Wajir County and Isiolo County to the North, Tana River County to the West and Lamu County to the South. Its capital and largest urban area is Garissa . The county was created by the 2010 Constitution of Kenya as a new unit of the ...
Kakuma is a town in northwestern Turkana County, Kenya. It is the site of a UNHCR refugee camp, established in 1992. [ 1] The population of Kakuma town was 60,000 in 2014, having grown from around 8,000 in 1990. In 1991, the camp was established to host unaccompanied minors who had fled the war in Sudan, Somalia and from camps in Ethiopia.