Category: Feature Reports

“You host, we fund” Global North

Post author By KANERE
Post date December 31, 2022

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.

Warehousing of refugees – report by Tolossa Asrat / KAENRE 2022

Tags #globalsouth, #humanrights, #refugeewarehouse, #warehousing, kakuma, kenya, refugees

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KANERE Reporters’ experiences from Germany

Post author By KANERE
Post date December 31, 2022

By Tolossa Asrat – KANERE’s Volunteer Writer, January 2022

Refugees from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Somalia have been resettled in a third country, Germany, through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resettlement programme.

Baluu Wol Makuach former KANERE’s Editorial Member remains actively engaged with Kakuma’s KANERE Team from Germany/ Baluu Wol/KANERE

Tags #Germany, #Kaneremedia, #KanereNews, #resettlement, kakuma, kenya, refugees

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Vulnerable Refugees in Kakuma to get a dollar a day as global remittance fall significantly

Post author By KANERE
Post date September 30, 2021

By Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Volunteer Writer, September 2021

Following the outbreak of COVID-19, remittances sent from the US and Western countries to Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei settlement have reduced significantly.

Refugees waiting to receive food rations at FDC in camp 1, photography / KANERE Sep, 2021

Tags #Community, #Covid19, #dollar, #Kalobeyei, #KanereNews, #Pandemic, #remittance

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Fan Violence and Kakuma Premier League

Post author By KANERE
Post date September 30, 2021

By Baluu Wol Makuach – KANERE Volunteer Writer, September 2021

Strong calls are being made for the Kakuma Premier League (KPL) Board to suspend Naath Football Club (FC) following an injury to an Okapi FC fan last weekend during their first league loss of the season.

Match-day: All Stars Vs Legend FC – Kakuma Premier league, photography taken at Kakuma 1, zn 3 football field / KANERE August, 2021

Tags #Community, #intercommunal, #Kalobeyei, #KanereNews, #Premierleague

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Attacks on refugees following camp closure notice

Post author By KANERE
Post date June 30, 2021

By KANERE News Desk

Conflicts between refugees and locals have been a long-standing issue in Kakuma, but an attack following the government announcement about closing Kenya’s refugee camps seems to have been motivated by the announcement. At least four refugees have sustained non-life-threatening injuries following attacks by members of the host community in Kakuma.

Victims of attacks in Kakuma is related to threats from camp closure notice by Kenya government: Photograph by KANERE

Tags #Campclosure, #Dadaab, #insecurity, #KanereNews, #peacefulco-existence, #refugeenews, #Refugees, #UNcamps, #Xenophobia

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REFUGEE KILLED IN STRUGGLE OVER FIREWOOD

Post author By KANERE
Post date February 3, 2021

By Qaabata Boru KANERE Staff Investigative Journalist – February 2021

One South Sudanese refugee teenager killed and another sustained injuries in a fight over firewood collection in Kakuma.

Firewood in Kakuma is most challenging need as default energy source: KANERE File/Qaabata Boru

Tags #Conflict, #firewood, #insecurity, #Journalism, #KakumaRefugeeCamps, #Refugees, #Struggleoverfirewood

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Refugee Education under the Pandemic

Post author By KANERE
Post date February 3, 2021

Baluu Wol Makuach – KANERE Staff Writer, February 2021

Kenya announced its first Covid-19 case on March 13th 2020 when a woman contracted the virus upon her return to Kenya after traveling to the United States via London.

Students from KRSS assemble for a second term reopening/ KANERE Feb 2021

Tags Covid-19, Education, kakuma, KanereNews, refugeejournalism, Refugeemag, UNHCR

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One dead, another seriously wounded in robbery gone wrong

Post author By KANERE
Post date November 30, 2020

By Qaabata Boru – KANERE Investigative Writer November 2020

On the night of August 25, 2020, unidentified armed men confronted a young refugee outside his residence on block four in zone one of Kakuma camp one. The confrontation, which occurred around 3:30 in the morning, ended in a shooting which resulted in one death and one serious injury.

Scene at block four in zone one of Kakuma one where unidentified armed men confronted a young refugee outside his residence, and shot him at close rage and another/ Qaabata Boru – KANERE

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Soap Production Initiative

Post author By KANERE
Post date June 6, 2020

By Baluu Wol Makuach – KANERE Staff Writer, May 2020

Students at Kakuma Refugee Secondary School are responding to the Covid-10 pandemic by manufacturing detergent soaps for sale to the community.

Rebecca is adding Sodium Hydroxide to the mixture to lower the PH of the mixture: Photo/KANERE

Tags Coronavirus, journalism, kakuma, kakumarefugeecamp, kalobeyei, KanereNews, reporting, schoolproject, soapmaking

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Photo Essay: Two months food assistance distributed in anticipation of potential lockdown

Post author By KANERE
Post date April 13, 2020

By Baluu Wol Makuach – KANERE Staff Writer April, 2020

On April 2nd, KANERE correspondent Baluu Wol Makuach visited Food Distribution Point 1 to see how the World Food Programme (WFP) was delivering rations under the increased health precautions. To curb the spread of Covid-19 in Kakuma, WFP is distributing a double ration of two months of relief food to beneficiaries.

This is the first story published in KANERE’s Photo Essay series, told through images rather than a conventional written article.

Refugees wait to be screened by KK Security officers in the security queue outside Food Distribution Point 1. UNHCR, along with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), instituted precautionary health measures to be followed by refugees while coming to collect their food. This includes thermal screening, two-meter social distancing, hand-washing, and limiting the number of people present in the collection zone to fewer than ten. But outside, crowding put many people into close proximity to one another.

Tags #Covid-19, #fooddistribution, #kakumarefugeecamp, #KanereNews, #refugeemag, kakuma, kalobeyei, kanere, UNHCR, WFP