This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 21 February 2012 This ...

The government announced in May that the vast Dadaab camp in north-east Kenya would be shut down, citing security concerns. Kenya said on Wednesday it will delay by six months the closure of the ...

DADAAB - Refugees in Dadaab camp now want to be allowed more freedom within the hosting nation Kenya besides getting more support. At the Global Forum in Geneva this week, VOA reports, refugees called ...

Kenya plans to shutter the world's largest refugee camp, home to nearly a quarter of a million people, in the next few months, according to an internal UN document seen by AFP Tuesday, The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — Abdikadir Omar was ...

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 ...

Inside the Hagadera Refugee Camp located in Dadaab, eastern Kenya sits Mariam's kitchen garden. This camp of semi-permanent corrugated metal houses and canvas tents has been her home for the last 19 ...

The ban had threatened to spread its effects to the volatile security situation along the Kenya-Somalia border as well as within the refugee camps.

President William Ruto and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Mr Filippo Grandi during the launch of the Shirika Plan at State House, Nairobi. [ELLY OKWARE/PCS] Plans are underway to ...

When Abdullahi Mire first arrived in Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya at the age of three, he was fascinated with the letters and words he saw on billboards and on the plastic sheets that ...

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 ...