Kenya’s Deputy Speaker Farah Moallin reported today that Kenya will allow a fourth refugee camp in Dadaab which will hold up to 80 thousand refugees.
Under pressure from the United Nations, Kenya agreed to extend the over-crowded refugee camp in order to accommodate the large influx of Somalis arriving in Kenya each day. More than one thousand Somali refugees are reported to cross the border into Kenya per day in search of relief from the worst East African drought in decades.