Dadaab

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided health care in and nearby Dadaab, a refugee complex in Kenya, for most of the camp’s over 30-year existence.

More funding is urgently needed to avert a looming health catastrophe in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camps, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camps have been affected by a cholera outbreak as the population in the facilities grows rapidly, a humanitarian charity said Tuesday.

Victor Nyamori is a researcher and adviser on the Refugee and Migrants Rights Team at Amnesty International, working on legal protection for Kenya's refugees, including those living in the Kakuma and Dadaab camps.

But the UN agency does have other resources to respond to the virus outbreak in Dadaab.

Two years later the issue was back in the headlines when a UN document revealed that the Kenyan authorities, citing security concerns, had sent a note to the UNHCR about plans to close Dadaab within six months.

Dadaab: Agreement on refugee repatriation should not affect aid delivery, says.

Twenty-five-year-old Bashir Ahmed, a high school graduate, was born at Dadaab four years after it opened.

Life-threatening consequences awaits hundreds of refugees if Dadaab is closed within.