This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 21 February 2012 This ...

IFO CAMP, Kenya, April 26 (UNHCR) - Several weeks ago, eight-year-old Camilla Mohamed Ali arrived at the hospital severely malnourished, swelling with edema and in a coma. And for weeks she passed ...

As a consequence of the April 2, 2015, deadly attacks at Kenya’s Garissa University carried out by members of the Somalia-based terrorist organization known as Al-Shabaab, which resulted in the ...

A police officer was killed and three others seriously injured in an explosion within Ifo Refugee Camp in Dadaab, Garissa. The officers were stepping out of their car when what police termed as an ...

In early 1991, as guns rented the air in different parts of Somalia, families were separated, lives were lost, and thousands of people were displaced. The country was experiencing a civil war that ...

The government announced in May that the vast Dadaab camp in north-east Kenya would be shut down, citing security concerns. Kenya said on Wednesday it will delay by six months the closure of the ...

Dadaab is home to some 256,000 people, the vast majority of them Somalis who fled across the border following the outbreak of civil war in 1991. Judge John Mativo ruled that the plan to shut down the ...

Some other news now. Kenya is threatening to close one of the biggest refugee camps in the world, calling it a security risk. NPR's Eyder Peralta reports. EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: This is not the first ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's interior minister says the government will close Dadaab refugee camp which has hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees and is often referred to as the world's largest ...

The Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya shelter hundreds of thousands of people who have fled war or drought in nearby countries. Many people in the camps cling to the hope of resettlement abroad in ...