Category: Community and Culture

Covid-19 Myths in Kakuma

Post author By KANERE
Post date April 13, 2020

By KANERE Staff Writer, April 2020

Covid-19 has not yet reached Kakuma camp, but misinformation is spreading rapidly.

Given the lack of medical infrastructure in Kakuma, it is important that the community does its best to follow public health recommendations that can prevent the spread of the virus. However, misinformation leads people to undertake ineffective strategies, which can be a major waste of energy and resources. Moreover, misinformation may discourage them from following the official guidance of qualified health experts. Worse yet, rumors about how the disease is spread can cause stigmatization and even violence against certain groups.

Myths regarding Covid-19 and awareness intervention from WHO

Tags #Irc, #KanereNews, #ministyofhealth, #misinformation, #Myths, #WHO, Covid-19myths, UNHCR

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INFORMATION DISSEMINATION FROM NGO’s IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 IN KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP

Post author By KANERE
Post date April 13, 2020

By Hibo Mohammed – KANERE Staff Writer April, 2020

The residents of Kakuma have been worried about the Covid-19 pandemic, which has affected many countries but has yet to reach the camp. On 13th March 2020, Kenya announced its first case of Corona Virus, and fear rose in the camp when it was reported in The Daily Nation on March 20th that four people had been detained while attempting to enter Kakuma by road. Due to concerns that they might have been infected by coronavirus, they were put into isolation. The three Somali-Americans men were all relatives; the eldest had just returned from the US, and he was accompanied on the road by his son and grandson.

Tags #awareness, #Covid-19, #information, #KanereNews, #NGO's, kakuma, kalobeyei

Arts Community and Culture

NEXT CIRCLE

Post author By KANERE
Post date April 13, 2020

By Okelo Sejo – Kakuma Refugee Camp

There is time for more

And time for less

Time for war

And time to seek refuge

Time to collect ration

And time to starve

Problem is there is just no time

Tags #artist, #Kanereartist, #refugeejournalism, art, kakuma, poem

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Five Dead, Many Injured in Communal Violence

Post author By KANERE
Post date March 23, 2020

By KANERE Staff Writer, Dec 2019

At least five people were killed in an inter-ethnic conflict in Kakuma Refugee camp that spanned at least 3 days. The conflict was sparked on the evening of December 10, 2019 during a football match between the South Sudan and Sudan football teams at Kakuma 3, Zone 2, Block 13. What started as a skirmish on the football pitch escalated as larger revenge attacks were carried out in places of residence. By the next day, much of Kakuma 3 was affected by general insecurity and movement by both foot and vehicle were halted for days, including for NGOs.

Tags #community #Communalfight #violence #women #SouthSudanese #Refugees, Kanere reporting, UNHCR Camps

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Community Radio Established in Kalobeyei Settlement

Post author By KANERE
Post date March 23, 2020

By KANERE staff writer

REF FM, a new community radio for and by refugees in the Kalobeyei Settlement, is now ready to commence broadcasting for refugees and the host communities.

Tags #Kakuma #KanereNews, #Radio, REF FM

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Female refugees turn to Suicide and drug to escape agonizing camp life

Post author By KANERE
Post date July 31, 2019
1 Comment on Female refugees turn to Suicide and drug to escape agonizing camp life

By KANERE News Desk – kakuma.news@gmail.com, July 2019

Decreases in the number of resettlement places available and a cut in food rations have led to growing levels of suicide, drug abuse and alcoholism as a coping mechanism among female refugees in Kakuma refugee camp, northwest Kenya, a home for more than 88,000 women from different East and central African countries, who’ve escaped war or civil strife.

Tags #Kakuma #refugees #Suicidewomen #distress #humanright #warehousing #KanereNews #therapy

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LGBTIQ protest interrupted by violence outside UNHCR sub-office

Post author By KANERE
Post date December 31, 2018
2 Comments on LGBTIQ protest interrupted by violence outside UNHCR sub-office

By Ahmed & Mohan – KANERE reporters

At least 20 refugees injured as LGBTIQ demo turned violent outside the UNHCR compound in Kakuma.

Tags #kakumaFlag #LGBTIQ #refugees #demo, #KanereNews

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Two killed in communal violence

Post author By KANERE
Post date December 31, 2018

BY Tut Nyink – KANERE reporter

Dispute over woman results in the deaths of at least two people and many injured.

Tags #community #Communalfight #violence #women #SouthSudanese #Refugees, #freepress, #KanereNews

Arts Community and Culture

All in my thought

Post author By KANERE
Post date December 31, 2018

By Gidi Abamegal – Tilting cages, Kakuma refugee camp

In front of my tilting cage,

That little but of plastics,

So not to suffer from loneliness,

I travelled far and wide,

All in my thought.

Tags #Kakuma #refugees #poem #art, #KanereNews

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Kenya’s black market in “refugee real estate”

Post author By KANERE
Post date February 11, 2018

By Cory Rodgers

The informal system of shelter ownership that has sprung up in refugee camps in Kenya and elsewhere has allowed entrepreneurial activity to flourish, but it is also unregulated and without formal legal protections, leaving some refugees vulnerable to losing everything.

Tags abuse, aid business, corruption, illegal, kakuma, ownership, police, refugee, Shelter system, UNHCR