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Mareeg Media
March 29, 2018
PRETORIA, South Africa, March 29, 2018/Leanne Manas, multiple award winning TV presenter and news anchor on SABC's Morning Live, radio host, MC and High Level Influencer for UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency is in Kenya this week on mission to Kakuma Refugee Camp. Kakuma Refugee Camp isÃâà...
Al-Fanar Media
March 29, 2018
Children at the Kakuma refugee camp are staying away from school to protest against Kenya's government move to replace refugee teachers with registered ... KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya—Thousands of refugee students here have been boycotting their classes to protest against the KenyanÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 26, 2018
... refugee schools in Kakuma camp. She is one of the 530 refugee beneficiaries of the Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative, known as DAFI, educational scholarship. Read more: http://www.unhcr.org/ke/13366-rwandanrefugee-recipient-german-education-scholarship-dafi-gives-back.html.
New York Times
March 12, 2018
KAKUMA, Kenya — These barren plains of sand and stone have always known lean times: times when the rivers run dry and the cows wither day by day, until their bones are scattered under the acacia trees. But the lean times have always been followed by normal times, when it rains enough to rebuildÃâà...
Iowa City Press Citizen
March 7, 2018
Partnering with our sister UNA chapter in Chicago, we are supporting the Shabele Primary School in the Kakuma Camp, which has a population of 180,000. The population of this camp includes refugees from Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Burundi and Rwanda.
Al-Fanar Media
March 5, 2018
Teachers who took part last year in the peer coach training in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya (Photo: Tonny Onyulo). KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya—Six years ago, Ochwor Onak Okwier wasn't sure if he was properly educating his students at this crowded refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. TodayÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 4, 2018
Johannesburg — THOUSANDS of refugees in Kenya have received 10 000 bioethanol stoves as part of initiatives by an electronics firm to empower vulnerable communities. Samsung Electronics, in partnership with Rural Development Solutions, has made the stoves available to households in the KakumaÃâà...
MO
February 24, 2018
Lieven Corthouts heeft iets met Kakuma (Kenia), na Dadaab het grootste vluchtelingenkamp in Oost-Afrika. Zeven jaar lang verbleef hij er met de regelmaat van de klok, wat uitmondde in de productie van de documentaire Kakuma: The Invisible City in 2016. Die titel sprak al boekdelen: voor LievenÃâà...
The Intelligencer
February 21, 2018
Sonja, 13, spent more than an hour after school last week with 21 of her fellow classmates at the Horsham middle school writing letters to South Sudanese girls living at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. It's part of their year-long project that started with raising money to build wells in the South SudanÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
February 20, 2018
Kenya's nearly 500,000 refugees are mainly distributed across three sites: the Dadaab and Kakuma camps, and the capital city Nairobi. The last two are the focus of the new report, which draws on research that will eventually form part of a broader multi-country, multi-year dataset. In addition to Kenya, theÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
February 14, 2018
Within Kakuma refugee camp sits Kalobeyei Settlement Village One. Nearly 40,000 refugees live here, mostly South Sudanese, with a few from Ethiopia, Burundi and Congo. Women and children sit outside their makeshift homes, shielding themselves from the scorching midday sun. It is here that we meetÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
February 14, 2018
Their journey from Jongei to Kakuma took them four days, arriving on December 26. The family is among hundreds of South Sudanese refugees waiting to be registered at the camp. She hopes the South Sudanese leaders will reconcile. “I would like them to know that war will not help us. We women andÃâà...
ABC Online
February 10, 2018
One of the world's largest refugee camps will soon be home to surplus medical equipment from the old Royal Adelaide Hospital. The Kakuma refugee camp in the north-western region of Kenya has a population of more than 185,000 registered refugees and asylum-seekers, according to the United NationsÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
February 4, 2018
A study conducted at the Kakuma Refugee Camp shows there is a huge demand for cleaner cooking solutions and modern renewable electrical supplies. The refugees said cleaner energy will help them take control of their lives. Currently, basic cooking, lighting and phone-charging needs are costly forÃâà...
Daily Nation
February 2, 2018
She and other refugees were hosted at various mosques in Nairobi before UNHCR ferried them to Kakuma Refugee camp. Halane says that at some point during the journey here, she was separated from some of her relatives, who she has never seen since. In 2005, she was married off. She was only 14Ãâà...
UNHCR
February 2, 2018
They went back to try and stop them chasing us, but the men shot and killed them,” Simon recounted. The two brothers were seated with five other siblings and their mother, Adut Akot Ker, on the floor of UNHCR's registration centre in Kakuma refugee camp, in northern Kenya, waiting to be given temporaryÃâà...
Shepparton News
December 31, 1999
Jean-Michel Batakane will not give up on his fight to improve the lives of unaccompanied minors in Kakuma Refugee Camp. ... Productions in 2011, having personally experienced the hardship of the camp himself and noticing a high risk of drug abuse and suicide due to the idleness of life at Kakuma.
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