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Letter from the Editors

Post author By KANERE
Post date November 30, 2020

Dear KANERE readers,

We are pleased to publish a new edition of Kakuma News Reflector (KANERE).

Since 2008, KANERE has focused on issues that matter to refugees based in Kakuma refugee camp. We continue to report under adverse conditions, in the face of immense financial and security challenges.

In this publication, we offer fact-based insight and analysis from the ground to our readers and supporters. The stories in this edition draw attention to how refugees are reluctantly abiding by necessary restrictions put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. As well as recently enacted enforcement measures, we examine the impact of climate change on refugees and its role in the growing number of refugees being displaced within Kakuma camps.

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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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Ramadan in Kakuma under COVID-19 Pandemic

Post author By KANERE
Post date June 6, 2020

By Hibo Mohammed – KANERE Staff Writer May, 2020

The Muslim community of Kakuma is made up of various nationalities majority coming from Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Congo, Yemen, Afghanistan and Burundi. Muslims in Kakuma adhere to fasting during Ramadan. For breaking the fast (iftar), fresh fruits are available all around the markets. Residents purchase them in larger quantities to make juice. However, due to covid-19, social and religious gatherings are banned across the country.

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Pastor takes a bicycle to save refugees from the Pandemic

Post author By KANERE
Post date June 1, 2020

By Hibo Mohammed KANERE Staff Writer, May 2020

75-year-old Pastor Juba Lungula from the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in Kakuma Refugee camp in 2012, leaving his family back home. It had always been his passion to preach the Gospel.

Pastor takes bicycle to preach Covid-19 awareness by using illustrations around the camp communities/Photo by KANERE

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Local solutions for global problems

Post author By KANERE
Post date June 1, 2020

By Santos Madhieu – KANERE Staff Writer, May 2020

Meet Samson, a 22-year-old Congolese designer who came to Kakuma Camp in 2015 and is now helping to fight the Coronavirus by making free face masks for both refugees and locals.

Samson, a refugee designer helping to fight Coronavirus through masks provision: Photo/KANERE

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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.

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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.

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Refugee business entrepreneur facing life threats

Post author By KANERE
Post date February 11, 2018

By Qaabata Boru

A refugee small business owner is facing a life-threatening situation in Kalobeyei refugee settlement

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