Currently New Arrivals

By Magda

The official UNHCR report warns the world once again. More than 50,000 Somali citizens have been forced to flee to Kenya since the beginning of 2009. Somalia suffers from deadly clashes between government forces and rebel groups. They have forced around 250,000 Somali civilians out of their homes in the capital, Mogadishu, since May 2009. Furthermore, more than 524,000 citizens have been internally displaced, meaning they have moved within the Somali territory.

The refugees have been arriving in northeast Kenya at an average rate of 6,400 a month to the Dadaab refugee camp. In August, UNHCR began a program to relocate some 12,900 of the refugees to a different camp, Kakuma. Almost 9,600 refugees have been transported to a new camp since August. Nevertheless, the camp population in the Dadaab remains almost unchanged.

Somalia is currently one of the world's biggest refugee and IDP (Internally Displaced Person) producing countries. Nearly 3.8 million Somalis are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
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