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UNHCR: Around 80,000 people have fled Somalia to refugee camps in Kenya in two years
On 6 December local time, UNHCR spokesman Boris Cheshirkov said that over the past two years, due to the continued worrying security situation in Somalia and the worst drought in decades, nearly 80,000 people have died from Somalia and fled in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. About 24,000 people have arrived at the refugee camp in the last two months.
Due to limited space in refugee camps, many people have been forced to live in temporary shelters in the suburbs, where clean water and sanitation facilities are severely inadequate. Furthermore, the United Nations refugee agency has said that the cholera epidemic is another threat to refugees.
Dadaab refugee camp is located in the border area between eastern Kenya and Somalia, it is one of the largest refugee camps in the world and the main source of refugees is Somalia. The refugee camp was originally planned to house 90,000 people, but the current number of refugees has seriously exceeded capacity.
(Headquarters reporter Zhao Qian Ma Peimin)
