Okash Adan Abdullahi, 34, fled the town of Sakow in the Middle Juba region of Somalia. He is the owner of two farms, but due to failed rains, he was forced to flee the country and crossed to the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya. The Kenyan government stopped issuing refugee registration cards to refugees in 2016, as it keeps threatening to close the camps. In June, the U.N. refugee agency requested $42.2 million to cover humanitarian needs in refugee camps and IDP settlements in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia until the end of the year. The WFP said the funding would help scale up the drought response and support over half a million refugees living in the camps in Kenya.

Source: Ethiopian News September 23, 2022 22:06 UTC