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Border remains closed to asylum seekers
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| The Somalia-Kenya border is to remain closed despite the arrival of thousands of new Somali asylum seekers escaping weeks of heavy fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu |
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Somali refugees strains food stocks in Kenya's camps
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| Somali refugees escaping the conflict between the Union of Islamic Courts and the Transitional Federal Government have pushed the number of refugees in Kenya to the highest level in a decade, threatening to exhaust food aid stocks unless urgent donations are made |
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Somalia's refugees stream into Kenya
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| Refugee camps are strained by a massive influx as Somalians flee what they fear could soon be full-scale war. |
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Breakthrough in Kenyan Refugee Camps
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| Solar Cookers International (SCI) has been sponsoring extensive solar cooking work in Kenyan refugee camps |
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People Fleeing Somalia War Secretly Detained
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| Kenya, Ethiopia, the United States and the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia cooperated in a secret detention program for people who had fled the recent conflict in Somalia |
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Kenya hosts approximately 220,000 refugees from neighboring countries. They face serious challenges to their survival and are at great risk due to a lack of protection. The hot and dry climate makes it difficult for refugees to cultivate land to sustain themselves and render them dependent upon humanitarian aid. They suffer from shortages of food and other basics of life due to limited international resources. Many of the already reduced resources have been diverted to ongoing emergencies in surrounding countries. Refugees have no legal status due to absence of refugee laws in Kenya. Their physical security is endangered by various abuses, to name a few: extortion, harassment, arbitrary arrest and detention, sexual violation and political murders. Moreover, the domestic law in Kenya requires refugees to live in camps and thus does not provide for any assistance to a number of urban refugees living in harsh conditions.
Source: Refugees International http://www.refintl.org/content/country/detail/2919?PHPSESSID=447d33c54a95ba9
