The United Nations Declares a Famine on the one hand and Threatens 5 Million Somali Refugees with Forcible Return on the other!
Press Release In coordination with the United Nations, Kenya is carrying out evacuations of the Dadaab refugee camp, which houses more than 350,000 refugees. It is the largest refugee camp in the world. People agreed to live in this notorious camp for decades despite its association with the spread of cholera, and cases of rape of women refugees, and almost no presence of facilities, a s well as the scarcity of schools, and poor care. They have endured living in these conditions in order to flee with their lives and the lives of their children from war and famine that has dogged Somalia over the past quarter of a century. Life was never comfortable nor safe in the Dadaab camp, but the return (to Somalia) was not an option for most of its population. The United Nations is carrying out evacuation procedures of the camp despite the confirmation by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on 14/4/2015 that the sudden closure of Dadaab and forcing refugees to return to Som