By Qaabata Boru & Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Staff Journalists
Kakuma residents are now able to use their mobile phones to communicate with UNHCR staff and schedule appointments.
Category: Humanitarian Services
BY KANERE News Desk – kakuma.news@gmail.com
The Refugee Affairs Secretariat distributes decision letters to anxious refugees in the wake of the Refugee Status Determination transfer process.
By Ebssa Tolossa – KANERE reporter
Students from Kakuma’s newest higher education programme had an opportunity to chat with area professionals, business leaders, and agency representatives.
By Qaabata Boru & Roland Kalamo
On Tuesday, February 20th, 2018: A large movement of refugees – some report several thousand – departed on foot from the Kiziba refugee camp in Western Rwanda. Leaders declared that they were repatriating to the DRC in response to both recent and proposed reductions in aid provision. It may be one of the first examples of voluntary repatriation undertaken as a protest.
During a confrontation with Rwandan military, soldiers fired live bullets with intentions to force refugees back to the camp. At least 11 refugees died according to the report from UNHCR Rwanda, a protestor was wounded when a bullet struck his foot, and several other injuries were alleged during the mayhem.
By KANERE News Desk
Murder of an Ethiopian refugee man remain a misery to relatives and community
By Qaabata Boru – kakuma.news@gmail.com
The Trump administration’s proposed restrictions and ban on immigration have compounded stress and trauma that is experienced by the camp refugees.
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.
By Qaabata Boru
A refugee small business owner is facing a life-threatening situation in Kalobeyei refugee settlement
The unlegislated closure of refugee camps is illegal under the Kenyan Refugees Act of 2011.
A unified refugee verification exercise in Kakuma was meant to collect refugees’ data