Hospital admissions of children suffering from severe malnutrition have spiked in Dagahaley, one of three refugee camps in the Dadaab refugee complex, amid worsening humanitarian conditions in the overcrowded camps. In 2022, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated a record 12,007 patients – an overwhelming majority of whom are children – in its […]
Country and Region: Kenya
Kenya: As Dadaab sees sharp rise in new arrivals, MSF urges for scaling up humanitarian response including cholera and measles vaccinations
With hundreds of people from Somalia arriving each week in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Complex, living conditions in camps hosting over 233,000 refugees and thousands of new arrivals since January are worsening. Given the conditions in these overcrowded camps, there is a high risk of disease outbreaks, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF urges […]
Kenya: Urgent solutions needed for refugees as camps close
With the deadline to close Kenya’s refugee camps just over six months away, urgency is mounting to find sustainable solutions for the refugees in the camps at Dadaab.
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COVID-19 further fuels mental health crisis as durable solutions falter in Dadaab
A mental health crisis is growing in the Dadaab refugee complex, where hundreds of thousands of Somalis have been stuck for decades now. A fatal mix of pent-up despair, anxiety and fear, combined with new uncertainties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, is forcing refugees to take extreme measures. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) […]
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COVID-19 response in Kenya
By Lili-Marie Wangari, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for MSF in Kenya. Wangari is working on the organization’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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