This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 27 November 2006 Our airlift of ...

GENEVA, 21 February (UNHCR) - This year is the 20th anniversary of the world's biggest refugee camp, Dadaab in north-eastern Kenya. UNHCR, which manages the Dadaab complex, set up the first camps ...

In early 1991, as guns rented the air in different parts of Somalia, families were separated, lives were lost, and thousands of people were displaced. The country was experiencing a civil war that ...

Kenya on Wednesday agreed to suspend the closure of Dabaab refugee camp, the world’s largest, for six months after coming under fire over the fate of its 280,000 inhabitants, most of them Somalis. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I’m a refugee myself, born in Somalia, we fled to Kenya after the civil war… I have a similar story to everyone here,” says Ali.

Northern Kenya is home to some of the country’s largest refugee settlements, where hundreds of thousands of people live after fleeing conflict, violence and climate shocks in the Horn of Africa. In ...

Nairobi, Feb 9 (AFP) Kenya’s High Court today declared as “null and void” the government’s decision to close the Dadaab refugee camp — the world’s largest — and to send Somali refugees home. “The ...

Regional human rights body hears from Somali refugee working as school head teacher in Kenya’s Dadaab camp (LWI) - Member ...

NAIROBI, Kenya August 23, 2014 (Garowe Online)-Federal Government of Somalia’s Prime minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed and his entourage paid a surprise visit to Somali refugees in Dadaab camp of ...

Kenya has ordered the closure of the Dadaab refugee camp by the middle of this year with the race now on to find homes for more than 210,000 people, according to a leaked internal United Nations ...

Like the proverbial adage of being caught between a rock and a hard place, since 1991, the indigenous residents of Dadaab sub-county in Garissa have been hosting refugees, who now stand accused of ...