{"id":4936,"date":"2020-04-30T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2020-04-30T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T09:26:04","slug":"one-of-the-worlds-largest-refugee-camps-is-placed-on-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/04\/30\/one-of-the-worlds-largest-refugee-camps-is-placed-on-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the world\u2019s largest refugee camps is placed on lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI —<\/strong> Kenya put one of the world\u2019s largest refugee camps under lockdown, even as humanitarian agencies warned there\u2019s no infrastructure in place to deal with a potential outbreak of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

All movement in and out of Dadaab, home to more than 220,000 people living in rickety, makeshift housing, as well as the smaller Kakuma refugee camp in northwest Kenya, will be prohibited as of Wednesday, according to Kenya\u2019s Interior Ministry. The measure is an extension of a 21-day partial lockdown across the country that was imposed last week.<\/p>\n

With only one dedicated Covid-19 health facility at Dadaab, \u201ca possible outbreak of the coronavirus would be a disaster,\u201d Philippa Crosland-Taylor, country director at aid organization CARE, said in a statement. The camp \u201chas no health infrastructure in place that could deal with an outbreak,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Dadaab, situated near the Somali border, opened almost three decades ago and is home to mostly ethnic Somalis who crossed into Kenya to flee civil war, drought, and famine. While the Kenyan government has often threatened to close the camps, it\u2019s never done so. Most facilities in the settlements are operated by international humanitarian organizations.<\/p>\n

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NAIROBI — Kenya put one of the world\u2019s largest refugee camps under lockdown, even as humanitarian agencies warned there\u2019s no infrastructure in place to deal with a potential outbreak of the coronavirus. All movement in and out of Dadaab, home to more than 220,000 people living in rickety, makeshift housing, as well as the smaller …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-displacement-and-asylum","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t