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Quotes of the Month

Quotes Of The Months, June 2010

“I am traveling. None should open my store and interfere. Let me be responsible for it .I have committed a crime and only allow the police to open the doors.”

-Y.M., A murderer speaking on the phone to his neighbour fleeing to away after the crime

“We are shocked by the injuries caused by her husband. Waral was also taken to imprisonment for the crimes committed and failing to disclose the solid cause of the chaos.”

Sudanese Equatorial Deputy Chairman speaking on the violence caused by his community member

“I was raped before the eyes of my own children and husband, I don’t even see any meaning of life anymore.”

-H.W. A victim complaining on the recent insecurity situation in the camp

“The results of the survey were not ready yet and we can’t give information until we are granted permission from the Nairobi Office.”

National Programme Officer of mix me in WFP to KANERE reporter during the Mix Me end line survey.

“He was taken to the surgical toile on Wednesday the 19th and discharged 23rd May 28, 2010 from IRC Refugee hospital.”

-M.B. IRC nurse who was taking care of a 14 year old boy in the isolation ward at Refugee main

Hospital on the recent insecurity in the camp

“Refugees are in Kenya since before the independent and we welcome and cater for their security. As we are reassuring the protection and security for the refugees. We have opened police posts and there are patrols so we have peaceful environment.”

A Kenya Government Official makes a speech on the world refugee day at Kakuma

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Letter from the Editor

Letter From The Editor June 2010

Dear our Respectable readers here and abroad,

We are humbly grateful to Almighty God for He has allowed us to reach this far on this our small planet. KANERE strongly apologies for this many months delayed publications of course for some reasons. Though this issues comes to your attention late we still believe that there are meaningful.

I thank the potential KANERE staff for their work until now despite the scenes we encountered in the course of early this year that got reported or are left out interrupting our normal routines, we have always believe in our strengths as we shall definitely keep on working towards ensuring the continuation of KANERE.

For over five months, life in Kakuma camp was remarked by several insecurity problems. In the late April to May there has been tremendous heavy down pour which caused camps flooded leading to several refugees thatched muddy wall shelters were washed away. A local Turkana boy and three Sudanese refugees died at the aggressive Kawalase seasonal flowing river which is approximately 1km to Lodwar town. In the refugee communities there had occurred few murder cases, several assaults and related serious Domestic violence cases reported.

In the world of the sport, the FIFA world cup taking place on the African soil for the first time, most camps movie halls, Tea and Coffee cafe’s here were over crowded as the football supporters and the fans feel for the game.

Being the great month in the world refugee calendar: thousands of the Kakuma refugees, International and national NGO Refugee Agencies with the concerned Kenya Government Departments taking a lead emerged at the Napata grounds to celebrate the world refugee day 2010.

The wider audiences out there keep your comments, thoughts and experiences alive. Address all the correspondences to myself at kakuma.news@gmail.com

Resilience,

KANERE Editor

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Community and Culture

WORLD REFUGEE DAY: RIGHT THEME-LIGHT WORK

The 2010 world refugee day celebration theme ‘They have taken away my home but they can’t take my future’ not only causes a thousand questions in the refugee minds but it gives room to opposite view of the UNHCR work in Kakuma refugee camp.

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Human Rights

Refugee Free Press Situation Grims As Reporters Experience Blatant Attacks On Press Freedom and Human Rights

 

The Kakuma New’s Reflector’s (KANERE) daily news situation has grown increasingly tenuous since the beginning of the year. This is a dangerous sign for the refugees who wish to exercise their right to a free press and express their voices through the independent newsletter in Kakuma Refugee Camp. The safety, protection and security of KANERE journalists in the camp is jeopardized.

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Arts

Comparisons…

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Humanitarian Services

THE MICRONUTRIENTS MALNUTRITION IN KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP

Multistory-Garden (MSG) and Kitchen Gardens a hope to eradicate micronutrients malnutrition in Kakuma refugee camp, shunned down no longer after its inception. 

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Arts

SOME WHERE

Without expectations

ever imagination

spontaneously comes

ideas that breaks the silence

Stretched, like a thread.

 

Where they have been?

Where were they existing?

How it flows and originates?

Oh! I get them, once,

Once in a blue moon,

Only for seconds. surrendered me, to exploit

to expand, to philosophies

wisely, to understand human wise

To see, feel, sharing the feelings

Contradictory world.

i guess human is wise

his wise ness which brought total mess.

His deaf and dampness

makes one dear then other fosterness.

The philosophy intellectual

survival of the fitness

eat the weak,

rise as strong as lion,

terrorize and bark.

so as human being,

longing,

the old – early world

No body knows

where the idea comes,

experience, knowledge, intuitions

some time, some way

it comes to observe

some enjoy, others suffers….

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Arts

IN THE MEMORY OF LOY NAKIYEMBA

By Jumbwike Sam

Seven and ten years have gone

Since young Loy

laid her intelligent brain down in death.