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Letter from the Editor Peace and Security

Editorial Note

Dear KANERE Readers and Supporters,

It has been a year since the last issue of KANERE was published, but we are back again with strong determination and resilience despite constantly facing obstacles in terms of humanitarian funding. Most international donors have routinely or continuously funded International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) with little knowledge of programming and service delivery on the ground. Sadly, this has sidelined the funding of critical refugee-led media organizations, including KANERE. This is simply due to KANERE’s critical reporting that sheds light on the lack of accountability by humanitarian organizations, issues of fraud and corruption, and incidents of violent insecurity across refugee camps, exposing where camp authorities have failed.

Would there be any evaluation of the aspects of triple nexus over the work of KANERE’s reporting in the old Kakuma and Kalobeyei establishments over the fragile peaceful relationship between refugees and the host population?

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Human Rights Humanitarian Services Kakuma Town and Kenya News Updates

Kalobeyei Refugee Protest

Qaabata Boru & Hassan Mahmud – KANERE Staff Writers, December 2022

Refugees in Kalobeyei settlement protest due to prolonged water shortages as the implementing agencies struggle to find tangible water solutions.

Kalobeyei residents protest over water shortages, and roads were barricaded with stones – By Hassan Mahmud / KANERE 2022
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Community and Culture Human Rights News Updates Peace and Security

Refugee Death Following Violent Robbery

By Mahmud, Santos & Qaabata – KANERE Staff Writers, December 2022

An Ethiopian-refugee has died at the scene of a violent robbery in Kalobeyei settlement.

The incident was recorded on the night of August 7 2022, with one person killed by gunshot in a series of shocking armed robberies in Kalobeyei’s Village Two.

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Business and Development Health Humanitarian Services News Updates

Cleaning Kakuma’s dirt, recycling waste and environment

By Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Volunteer Writer, December 2022

In 2019, refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp piloted a waste management project to keep their environment clean. Based on the principles of environmental sustainability, Fraternity for Development Integrated (FRADI) – a refugee-led organization – initiated a recycling project in Kakuma 2 to safeguard the environment and health of the community. By converting waste into useful products, the organization has now embarked on a journey to address pressing social, environmental and climate challenges.

Environment: Cleaning Kakuma’s dirt – Photograph by Tolossa Asrat/KANERE
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Arts Community and Culture Opinion

Rise Kakuma!

By Fantaye Agaro – KANERE Poet January 2023
Tilting Cages book, Page 72/1992
Kakuma Refugee Camp

Kakuma, a desolate wilderness,
a blazing fire, an earthly furnace,
venue of day darkness.
Don’t shut your eyes blind!
Speak the truth loudly!

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Arts Community and Culture Humanitarian Services Kakuma Town and Kenya News Updates

Public speeches made by Camp Authorities on World Refugee Day 2022

June 21 Speeches Compiled by Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Staff Volunteer Writer, 2022

World Refugee Day 2022 ceremony commemorated at Kalobeyei village 2 with the theme of ensuring every person has the right to seek safety whoever they are, wherever they come from and whenever they are forced to flee.

During the commemoration, various guests including Government representatives, UNHCR County representatives, UNHCR partners and other humanitarian organization representatives, goodwill Ambassador Yiech Pur Biel, refugee leaders from Kakuma and the new settlement attended and made speeches at the event in Kalobeyei settlement, Village 2.

Caroline Van Buren of UNHCR Kenya Country Rep speaking during the World Refugee Day, commemorated at Kalobeyei, Turkana – Photography by Tolossa Asrat / KANERE 2022
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Community and Culture Feature Reports Human Rights Humanitarian Services News Updates

“You host, we fund” Global North

By Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Staff Volunteer Writer, December 2022

In September 2016, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the New York Declaration of Refugees and Migrants which calls on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to apply the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) in situations of large-scale refugee movements. It aims to meet four objectives: ease pressure on host countries, enhance refugee self-reliance, expand access to resettlement, and foster conditions that enable voluntary repatriation.

Refugee Warehousing
Warehousing of refugees – report by Tolossa Asrat / KAENRE 2022
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Business and Development Humanitarian Services Kakuma Town and Kenya News Updates Opinion

WHY OCTOBER 10TH IS KENYA’S MOST CONFUSING HOLIDAY FOR SOUTH SUDANESE REFUGEES IN ELDORET

Opinion by Bior Garang – Student Writer

From the first day, it was proposed as a public holiday, October 10th was destined to always be a controversial day in Kenya.

Although the Kenyan government had officially renamed the day ”Utamaduni” day from its more meaningful full ”Huduma” day in 2020, global calendars are yet to be updated to reflect this new normal. 

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Community and Culture Education Health Humanitarian Services Kakuma Town and Kenya

Three People died by venom, Scorpion Project Center

By Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Volunteer Writer, January 2022

Three people, among them, a grandmother and a three-year-old baby, died from scorpion stings and snake bites reported the head of the Scorpion Project in Camp 4 of the Kakuma Refugee camp.

Parabuthus Maximus, the most harmful and feared Scorpion in Kakuma / Photograph by Godfrey of Scorpion Project Center
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Community and Culture Kakuma Town and Kenya Opinion

Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

H.E. Mr Antonio Guterres
United Nations Secretary-General
United Nations Headquarters
New York City/Geneva

September 2022
Kakuma, Kenya

RE: Support to facilitate durable solutions for refugees in Kenya

Your Excellency,

Please accept our warm congratulations on your second appointment and our best wishes for your success as continue to take on the responsibilities and challenges of your high office for the next five years.