{"id":33812,"date":"2017-04-10T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/drought-drives-new-somalia-refugees-into-dadaab\/"},"modified":"2017-04-10T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:19:30","slug":"drought-drives-new-somalia-refugees-into-dadaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/drought-drives-new-somalia-refugees-into-dadaab\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought drives new Somalia refugees into Dadaab"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The searing drought has pushed at least 2,000 Somalis across the Kenya border and into the Dadaab refugee complex in recent months, the United Nations reports.}<\/p>\n

Preliminary information \u201csuggests that more may already be on their way,\u201d the UN humanitarian aid agency added in an update on the response to the drought in Somalia.<\/p>\n

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Close to 100 of the new arrivals in Dadaab were among refugees who had returned to Somalia from the camps in Kenya as part of a voluntary repatriation initiative, the UN noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrought-related displacement continues to rise almost exponentially,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n

More than half-a-million Somalis have been forced from their homes since November, with 52 per cent of the total displacement occurring in just the past month, the UN reported on Friday.<\/p>\n

A mass movement of hungry and thirsty Somalis into Dadaab would threaten to stall or even reverse the progress made in the past two years in voluntarily repatriating refugees.<\/p>\n

Nearly 60,000 Somalis have returned home from Dadaab since the start of the voluntary programme in December 2014.<\/p>\n

256,000<\/p>\n

And the pace has quickened.<\/p>\n

The UN said 20,515 Dadaab residents have been supported so far this year in returning to Somalia. Another 21,940 are currently registered for voluntary repatriation, the UN added.<\/p>\n

The total population of the Dadaab complex stood at 256,192 as of March 15, the UN refugee agency reported.<\/p>\n

The Kenyan government had threatened to shut down the Dadaab camps next month due to security concerns. But the High Court has blocked that move, at least temporarily.<\/p>\n

The UN refugee agency has been conducting \u201cgo-and-see\u201d visits whereby selected groups of Dadaab residents travel to Kismayu and Baidoa for a few days to assess whether living conditions there are conducive to returning.<\/p>\n

At a March 15 debriefing session involving participants in go-and-see tours, refugees reported, according to the UN, that significant improvements had occurred in Kismayu since the first of the visits in 2014.<\/p>\n

In Baidoa, however, \u201cthere were more challenges due mainly to the drought whose impact was more felt in this town,\u201d a UN update stated.<\/p>\n

\"Somali<\/figure>\n

Source:Daily Nation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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