Medecins Sans Frontieres: Somali Refugees

Doctors Without Borders Dept: Dadaab refugee camp is overstretched well beyond its original capacity of 90,000 people and to add more refugees will worsen the humanitarian conditions of the camp and increase the risk of disease epidemics, said Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, in a statement Friday, according to Vancouver Sun. Dadaab Camp's squalid living conditions and insufficient assistance have been compounded by increasing insecurity over the last year, according to MSF and nAIROBI, Kenya - The health of thousands of Somali refugees will be threatened if they are moved from the country's urban areas into a camp near the Kenyan-Somali border, an international aid group has said. Earlier this month the Kenyan government decided that all refugees and asylum seekers must return to refugee camps. The decision to move Somali refugees to Dadaab was made because of ongoing insecurity in the country. Kenya has endured more than a year of attacks by explosives and guns which have been blamed on sympathizers of Somali militants who are being fought by Kenyan troops in Somalia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.