Serious threats have hindered smooth operation of KANERE, amplifying staff anxiety, and generating instability.
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World Refugee Day 2011
This year’s theme: “One refugee without hope is one too many.”
KANERE fully supports the theme of this year’s World Refugee Day. Hope is especially pertinent in protracted refugee situations. This day is dedicated to the millions of refugees and other forcibly displaced migrants in confined settlements or camped societies.
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Art on the Run
By Torben Ulrik Nissen, Jesper Lorentz Bertelsen and a KANERE reporter.
Art on the Run is a project supported by the Danish Centre for Culture and Development. Danish artists arrived in Kakuma on March 21st and left on April 6th, 2011. During their stay, the Art on the Run team shared their experiences with a welcoming and enthusiastic refugee community. The artists met with KANERE journalists, artists, refugees and humanitarian Agencies
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UN Youth Champion Visits Kakuma
UN Youth Champion Ms. Monique Coleman visits the Kakuma Refugee Camp on Thursday May 5th, 2011. You may recognize Ms. Coleman from her movies High School 1 and 2.
Several isolated incidents of violence challenged the peace in Kakuma Camp.
Extreme dust storms fed the blazing flames that erupted from a house in Kakuma One.
The Southern Sudan Referendum spread across 8 polling stations in 3 provinces in Kenya, with Kakuma figuring as a major voting center.
A fatal accident on the Lodwar-Kakuma highway results in one death and five injured.
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Murder of an Infant
A 12-day-old baby was killed in a gun-shooting at Kakuma Two.
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Killer Calling Hoax
Many mobile phone users in Kakuma panicked after they received false warning messages.