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July 15, 2011

Kenya Opens New Camp for Somali Refugees 
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Kenya is opening a new camp on its border with Somalia to accommodate
refugees fleeing the region's worst drought in decades. The Kenyan
government says the camp will take in around 80,000 people within 10
days. An estimated 380,000 people are currently living in nearby camps
meant to hold less than one-fourth that amount. The United Nations
describes the Somali drought as the worst humanitarian disaster in the
world, with more than 11 million people in need of life-saving
assistance. A doctor at a Kenyan hospital said he is seeing increased
arrivals of children suffering from severe malnutrition.

Doctor: "In the last few weeks, we have seen an increase of children
with severe malnutrition. Of these children most of them come with
complications resulting from acute malnutrition. The children we have
seen on the wards most of them are very sick and most of them come here
with an inability to feed and we have to feed them with a nasal-gastric
tube."



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