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	UNICEF - Kenya - Floods bring havoc to Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya
		DADAAB, Kenya, 4 December 2006 — It was early Saturday morning and Kusa Yunis Hassan, 23, a Somali refugee mother of two, emerged from her plastic shelter.
		She and her family have been in Ifo Camp 2 outside Dadaab for nearly three weeks.
		With bridges destroyed, some 30 trucks carrying aid from the World Food Programme were stuck on the road from Garissa to Dadaab for 22 days.
	www.unicef.org /infobycountry/kenya_37335.html (725 words)

	Dadaab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dadaab is a town in northeastern Kenya, approximately 100 kilometers from Kenya-Somali bourder.
		Most of Dadaab's locals are nomadic camel, goat herders.
		Much of the rest of the town's economy is based on services for refugees.The major feature in Dadaab is the UN base that serves refugee camps around Dadaab, namely:Hagardra, Ifo and Dagahaley.The nearest major town that serves this Dadaab is Garissa town which is the headquarters of Kenya's North Eastern Province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dadaab (121 words)

	Kenya NICS/RNIS Acticles
		In the districts where Kakuma and Dadaab camps are located and as elections are approaching, some politicians are using the case against the refugees as part of their electoral campaign (JRS, 31/07/02).
		In Dadaab the food ration was substantially reduced, although it is reported that it was increased to 1,700 Kcal from the 1,399 Kcal that were distributed from mid April (OCHA 31/07/01).
		As in Dadaab, one of the most important barriers to self-reliance is the arid environment in which the camps are situated.
	www.unsystem.org /scn/Publications/RNIS/countries/kenya_all.htm (18849 words)

	Summary, Communication Patterns in Refugee Camps
		Dadaab is a setting, a physical place, which is very far from the ideal of a public sphere.
		In Dadaab, there is a shortage of information and this in itself is dysfunctional to the growth of civil society.
		The communication theories discussed at length within the body of this paper suggest that a local form of mass media, in particular local radio, could be a useful tool to achieve some of the civil society building goals that CARE and other agencies in the region are working towards.
	home.gwu.edu /~wlr/robinsondadaabexecsummary.htm (940 words)

	washingtonpost.com: For Chosen Few, First Steps to a New Life
		Their trip from Dadaab to Kakuma, which is being coordinated by the International Organization for Migration, and paid for by the United States, has an initial budget of $2.7 million.
		Seven hours: In Dadaab, Mohamed would be finishing lunch about now, a piece of bread and a bowl of boiled corn, which is the same thing he would have for dinner, which year after year his mother prepared in the same pot balanced on three rocks surrounding some firewood.
		The day Mohamed and Isha were packing to leave Dadaab, another Bantu, Mohammed Abdullahi Hassan, was in one of the camp's hospitals after being attacked by a Somali who threw water in his face and then came at him with a metal rod.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A31244-2002Aug17?language=printer (3936 words)

	Somali Bantu Refugees queuing up for a bus
		Dadaab is a parched, wind-flattened landscape of scrub brush and nomadic camel herders that is now home to 134,000 refugees.
		The Somalis left behind in the Dadaab camp are furious that the Bantus have been handpicked by the United States.
		The day Mohamed and Isha were packing to leave Dadaab, another Bantu, Mohammed Abdullahi Hassan, was in one of the camp's hospitals after being attacked by a Somali who threw water in his face and them came at him with a metal rod.
	www.somalibantu.com /Refugee1.htm (6530 words)

	Dadaab Refugee Camps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dadaab refers to a group of three camps – Ifo, Dagahaley, and Hagadera – in Kenya’s remote eastern zone near the Somali border.
		The camps were set up around the town of Dadaab beginning in 1991 when civil wars erupted on a grand scale in Somalia (16 rival factions were involved).
		However, some 131,000 Somalis remain in Kenya, and 110,000 are in Dadaab, along with some Sudanese, Ugandans, and about 3,000 Ethiopians.
	www.refugeecamp.org /curriculum/task7/dadaab.htm (1093 words)

	Joint WFP/UNHCR evaluation of Kenyan refugee programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Kakuma and Dadaab camps, enforced containment and the lack of durable solutions forced the evaluation team to examine the extent to which an internal economy might be viable.
		In Dadaab, for instance, between October 1998 and July 1999, WFP distributed 778,069 sacks and 210,770 tins for various purposes.
		In Dadaab in particular, a large number of Kenyans act as 'middlemen' for trade in food commodities between the camps and regional towns.
	www.ennonline.net /fex/12/ev25.html (1092 words)

	UNHCR Canada - Shelter Campaign
		DADAAB, Kenya (UNHCR) – Imagine living in a small hut that collapses under heavy rain, and sharing a door-less toilet with some 200 people.
		Across the three camps that make up Dadaab – Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo – most of the refugees live in makeshift shelters called tukuls, the dome-shaped grass-thatched structures used by Somali communities.
		By helping refugees swap twigs for bricks, the Dadaab shelter project has become a concrete example of this tradition of sanctuary that is bringing a more dignified life to people so far away from home.
	www.unhcr.ca /shelter/news/news_dadaab.htm (1088 words)

	FMR 11 October 2001
		Dadaab, in an isolated region regarded by many Kenyans as a ‘bandit zone’, was under a constitutional state of emergency until the early 1990s.
		Protection in Dadaab is thus about dealing with the conventional and the unconventional and taking the flak for everything that the UNHCR office has failed to deliver and or has delivered unsatisfactorily.
		The reality of life in Dadaab constantly reminds refugees that they are victims tugging at the end of a lifeline.
	www.fmreview.org /text/FMR/11/12.htm (1665 words)

	IOL: Somali's refugees lose hope of going home
		Dadaab, Kenya - When Ahmed Noor arrived at the Dadaab refugee camp in far north-eastern Kenya, he thought he would be here for two months at most before the civil war in Somalia died down.
		The three camps that make up Dadaab were established in 1991 after warlords toppled dictator Siad Barre and carved the country into armed camps ruled by clan law.
		And for those who were born and raised in Dadaab, the camp has been their only home.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1156668660994R131 (871 words)

	CARE.ca - Postcard from Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya
		For we who live in Dadaab, this participation and excellent results of both girls and boys is impressive; however, perhaps the girls' participation is the most rewarding fact, surprise and achievement.
		In Dadaab, CARE did not waste time to recognize the effort of both students and teachers, and immediately organized a huge ceremony in honour of the students and teachers.
		You have given Dadaab something to be proud of, and we thank you for this opportunity of rejoice and celebration.
	www.care.ca /field/DadaabCamp/postcard_e.shtm (960 words)

	IRIN Africa \| East Africa Horn of Africa \| Kenya Somalia \| KENYA-SOMALIA: Waiting in Dadaab for peace in Somalia \| ...
		DADAAB, 26 May 2005 (IRIN) - Warsame Omar Muhamud has played the guitar for years and was a full-time musician in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, before he fled the fighting there and ended up at Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya.
		Dadaab is a town in northern Kenya located at the centre of the three refugee camps: Ifo, Dagahalley and Hagaderra.
		Young refugees, many of whom were raised or even born in Dadaab and have never seen Somalia, resist such practices while the old men insist on them, the residents said.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=47318&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa (1494 words)

	Where Showing Skin Doesn't Sell, a New Style Is a Hit - New York Times
		DADAAB, Kenya, March 15 — Rather than the clingy and attention-getting athletic attire that Serena Williams favors on the tennis court, baggy and nondescript are what Farhiyo Farah Ibrahim and her volleyball teammates are after.
		Three refugee camps around Dadaab are home to 127,000 people, most of them Somalis who fled the war in their country in the early 1990's and have lived in limbo ever since.
		They also have no time to think about the man their parents might be arranging for them to marry or the work that awaits them when the match is over.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/20/international/africa/20kenya.html?ex=1300510800&en=a3d47e8bfc2b25d7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (970 words)

	Dadaab stories
		Named after the Kenyan village of Dadaab, the three refugee camps are located in one of the harshest areas of Kenya, 80 kilometres from the border with Somalia.
		With the help of people she knew in Dadaab, she brought what was left of her family across the border at night and made it to the safety of the camp.
		As Mohammed Qazilbash of CARE Canada told us before we went into Dadaab, it's a place that makes you realize how arbitrary life is, a place that makes you wonder why one person is stuck there with nothing when another lives a comfortable life in Canada.
	www.hiiraan.com /news2_rss/2007/Mar/dadaab_stories.aspx (1058 words)

	SOMALI BANTU - Their History and Culture
		The Dadaab camps are administered by the UNHCR with the main implementing partners, CARE International and Doctors Without Borders, providing general camp support and medical care respectively.
		Dadaab is a small frontier town with sandy streets, some concrete buildings, and erratic water and electrical service.
		Each refugee family in the Dadaab camps is issued a large canvas tent, basic cooking utensils, and a jerry can for collecting potable water from spigots located throughout the camps.
	www.culturalorientation.net /bantu/sbhist.html (2952 words)

	National Center for Environmental Health: International and Emergency Refugee Health Branch - Reasearch and Survey - ...
		Prevalence of and causal factors for anemia among adolescents in Kakuma and Dadaab refugee, camps, Kenya.
		Abstract: Prevalence of and causal factors for anemia among adolescents in Kakuma and Dadaab refugee, camps, Kenya.
		Based on the WHO BMI-for-age reference population, the prevalence of low BMI was 57% (223 of 391) in Kakuma and 61% (237 of 391) in Dadaab.
	www.cdc.gov /nceh/ierh/ResearchandSurvey/Nutrition_more.htm (1719 words)

	Annex to Chapter 1. Resettlement of The Somali Bantu: A Case Study of Processing Complexity and Unforeseen Delays
		Dadaab, a collection of camps in a part of Kenya marked by banditry, housed some 130,000 people, mostly non-Bantu Somalis.
		Although some initial processing had been done there, Dadaab was judged unsafe for the later stages, both because of resentment against the now-favored beneficiaries of resettlement and because of broader security risks to US government and NGO personnel there.
		PRM therefore decided to move the 11,000 Bantu to Kakuma camp in northwestern Kenya B a journey of 900 miles by bus convoy.
	www.state.gov /g/prm/refadm/rls/rpts/36057.htm (1068 words)

	FfP: Africa New Service Story: Daadab an 'Arms Centre'
		The UN agency should be "forthright about the problem of arms and armed elements" in Dadaab, Austin said in a November 13 letter to Sadako Ogata, the UN's top official for refugee affairs.
		Austin, a specialist on issues pertaining to arms trafficking in Africa, is also urging Kenyan authorities to investigate and punish what she describes as "rampant corruption among local officials" in the area.
		Much of the arms trafficking and violence in the Dadaab camps can be linked to various clans that have been fighting for supremacy within Somalia and for control over the smuggling routes from Somalia into Kenya, she says.
	www.fundforpeace.org /media/inthenews/itn20001119.php (619 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		He says the camps are so violent because of the history of the refugees who are there — having come from bitter communal fighting and civil wars in the Horn of Africa — and in part because of lack of opportunities and boredom.
		Secondary schooling was abolished in Dadaab in 1997.
		UNHCR statistics show that there was nearly one rape every two days at Dadaab in 1998, although the number is said to have fallen last year.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/25112000/News/News7.html (829 words)

	In a dire Kenyan camp, links to Al Qaeda \| csmonitor.com
		He has been living in the Dadaab refugee camp for 11 years, ever since his father was killed in Somalia's civil war and his mother fled across the Kenyan border with her four children.
		Austin, whose team returned to the camp in August, says that Dadaab is an "important pit stop" in the arms pipeline and also a "perfect" training ground for terror organizations.
		With the renewed suspicions about Dadaab, the Kenyan ministry of home affairs has begun limiting journalists' access to the camp and asking that visitors be accompanied by a ministry representative.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1218/p01s04-woaf.html?s=widep (1270 words)

	RIGHTS-KENYA: A Humanitarian Disaster Looms Amongst Somali Refugees
		DADAAB, North-eastern Kenya, Jun 26 (IPS) - For Aaliya Omar Alas, Mar. 20, 2006 is a source of bitter memories.
		Her husband and son were killed on this day in Somalia, during violence that also dispersed the remaining members of the family.
		The total population of the Dadaab camps already stood at over 130,000 before the latest influx, with most of these refugees being from Somalia.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/nota.asp?idnews=33772 (883 words)

	Daily Nation on the Web
		One was arrested at the Dadaab airstrip in North-Eastern Province.
		They whisked him to Dadaab police station where he was questioned by senior police officers and asked to record a statement.
		The North-Eastern provincial police chief, Mr Alex Rono, said the pilots were unable to explain why they did not fly directly to Dadaab or why their planes had no cargo when they finally landed there several hours later.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/Todayx/News/News69.html (631 words)

	Allsomali.com.. N E W S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hagadera is one of three refugee camps that make up the sprawling Dadaab facility in northeast Kenya, along the border with Somalia.
		But a group of international human rights lawyers says its research at the Dadaab facility shows that a Somalia-based militant Muslim group, called al-Ittiyad al-Islamiya, is actively trying to recruit Somali refugees and form terrorist cells throughout East Africa.
		Back at Dadaab, a man is chased into the nearby bush by several men carrying sticks.
	www.allsomali.com /Somalia-News1-27a012003.htm (714 words)

	afrol News - Kenyan refugee camp goes green
		The solar cookers are part of GTZ's efforts to minimise and even reverse environmental degradation, a priority of UNHCR for the last decade – because huge influxes of refugees can wreak ecological havoc, and also because people may become refugees when their environment becomes exhausted, the UN refugee agency reports from Kenya.
		With as many as 20-24 days of sunshine a month in the Dadaab area, the solar cookers can be a valuable replacement for firewood for many lunches when the sun is high overhead.
		The UN refugee agency and its partners have not only planted 400 hectares of greenbelt in Dadaab, they have also educated refugees and locals on the value of conservation and tree planting.
	www.afrol.com /News2003/ken002_green_camp.htm (910 words)

	Excerpt - Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Indeed, Dadaab has achieved sufficient infamy within UNHCR to be used as a subject of a training videotape on security issues.
		The harsh conditions and violence led a US State Department refugee official to brief me that Dadaab in 2000 was ‘hell on earth.’ To me, it seemed that Dadaab reflected the prolonged and indefinite character of refugee arrangements in Africa and elsewhere around the world: increasingly a norm by default.
		The Dadaab police chief, who oversees the work of some 170 officers in the Dadaab area, was grateful for the support provided by UNHCR, which has funded salary incentives, equipment, vehicles, and buildings for the police.
	www.cfr.org /publication/4386/price_of_indifference.html?breadcrumb=default&excerpt=1 (1238 words)

	FMR 9 Published December 2000
		Introduction of security measures in camps brought down the number of reported rapes to an average of 90 cases per year in Dadaab in 1994 to1998 but the physical insecurity of women has remained a fact of camp life.
		Women and girls in Dadaab were attacked by 'bandits' (a term that seems to have been applied generally to 'Somali speakers' including Kenyan nomads), male refugees, militias engaged in cross-border raids and Kenyan police and soldiers.
		The nearest courts to Dadaab and Kakuma were over 100 kilometres away and their schedules were often overburdened.
	www.fmreview.org /text/FMR/09/07.htm (2114 words)

	A state of insecurity: the political economy of violence
		Much of the violence experienced by refugees in Kenya is inflicted upon them by members of their own family and community. According to aid agency staff, domestic violence (normally involving the physical abuse of women, children and adolescents by adult men) is a regular occurrence within the camps.
		Another form of inter-group violence in Dadaab consists of conflict between the majority of Somali refugees (who are primarily nomadic pastoralists) and the minority Bantu Somalis, who speak a different language, who usually practice sedentary agriculture and who are derided by other Somalis because of their way of life, accent and physical appearance.
		A final factor which contributes to the culture of impunity in Kakuma and Dadaab is the weakness of the judicial system. Between 1997 and 1999, for example, only five people were convicted for rapes committed in Dadaab. And the sentences imposed on them varied substantially - from a fine to 10 years imprisonment.
	www.jha.ac /articles/u016.htm (3234 words)

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