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Rise Kakuma!

By Fantaye Agaro – KANERE Poet January 2023
Tilting Cages book, Page 72/1992
Kakuma Refugee Camp

Kakuma, a desolate wilderness,
a blazing fire, an earthly furnace,
venue of day darkness.
Don’t shut your eyes blind!
Speak the truth loudly!

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Community and Culture Education Health Humanitarian Services Kakuma Town and Kenya

Three People died by venom, Scorpion Project Center

By Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Volunteer Writer, January 2022

Three people, among them, a grandmother and a three-year-old baby, died from scorpion stings and snake bites reported the head of the Scorpion Project in Camp 4 of the Kakuma Refugee camp.

Parabuthus Maximus, the most harmful and feared Scorpion in Kakuma / Photograph by Godfrey of Scorpion Project Center
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Human Rights Humanitarian Services News Updates

Kakuma Teachers’ Strike

By Qaabata Boru & Baluu W. Makuach – KANERE Volunteer Writers, September 2021

Primary school teachers across camps suspended all the classroom activities by sending learners back home.

Striking teachers marching to the UNHCR’s main compound in Kakuma 1, photography /KANERE Sep, 2021
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Human Rights Humanitarian Services News Updates

Journalist Arrested for Covering Teachers Strike

By KANERE News Desk – September 2021

A KANERE journalist was arrested by Kakuma police for reporting on a teachers’ demonstration outside the UNHCR main entrance on the morning of September 10th, 2021.

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Education Humanitarian Services News Updates

NGO’s sees Freelancing as a Possible Source of Income for Refugees in Kakuma

Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Staff Writer, February 2021

With diminished opportunities for third country resettlement for refugees, UNHCR and its partners have sought new solutions for the growing protracted refugee population in Kakuma and Kalobeyei.

Skill training center at the Kalobeyei refugee settlement – KANERE