{"id":91,"date":"2018-04-12T19:03:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=91"},"modified":"2018-04-25T05:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T05:13:53","slug":"un-envoy-visits-somali-refugees-in-dadaab-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2018\/04\/12\/un-envoy-visits-somali-refugees-in-dadaab-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"UN envoy visits Somali refugees in Dadaab camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dadaab (SOHA) –\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>The UN top envoy in Somalia ended a two-day visit to Kenya\u2019s Dadaab refugee camp where he highlighted the gradual progress made in the Horn of Africa nation.<\/p>\n

Michael Keating, UN Secretary-General\u2019s Special Representative for Somalia, who met with camp residents and some about to return to Somalia, stressed that his visit was a two-way exchange, and that what he heard was useful for his work and engagement with authorities in Somalia.<\/p>\n

“Every refugee has to take decisions on whether to return on a voluntary basis. Each has his or her own sources of information, including family, friends and the media.<\/p>\n

“But sometimes the news emphasizes the negative, including stories about violence and drought,” Keating said on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

“In my opinion\u2014as the mother of a family that is about to return just told me\u2014things are gradually getting better in Somalia,” he said in a statement issued on Friday in Mogadishu after his visit.<\/p>\n

“A consistent theme is that while many believe that things are slowly improving … they are still worried about security, they are worried about the opportunity to get jobs,” Keating said.<\/p>\n

According to the UN, Dadaab refugee complex currently has 226,472 registered refugees and asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

Some 96 percent of the residents of the four camps that make up the complex are from Somalia.<\/p>\n

“There is now a stronger state, a federal structure, there are big efforts to try and improve security \u2014 yes, al-Shabab remains a potent threat \u2014 but economic activity is picking up and things are, in a non-linear way, getting better,” said Keating.<\/p>\n

The first camp of Dadaab was established in 1991, when refugees fleeing the civil war in Somalia started to cross the border into neighboring Kenya.<\/p>\n

A second large influx occurred in 2011, when some 130,000 refugees arrived, fleeing drought and famine in southern Somalia, according to the UN.<\/p>\n

The number has since fallen to 226,472 from 463,427 people since 2011, primarily as a result of both spontaneous and facilitated returns, as well as voluntary repatriation.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0Xinhua<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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