The camps resemble naturally-grown towns and have developed into commercial hubs connecting north-eastern Kenya and southern Somalia. The Ifo 2 Settlement has now been developed to support rising ...

At the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, Pride was alive in 2021 even under the most punishing circumstances. Hamza Mutyaba, a ...

Hear Hawa Hassan's inspiring journey from Somali refugee to renowned chef on Food & Wine's Tinfoil Swans podcast. Hawa Hassan ...

"The number of registered refugees and asylum seekers increased by 19.1 percent to 823,932 in 2024. The number of children ...

The Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya shelter hundreds of thousands of people who have fled war or drought in nearby countries. Many people in the camps cling to the hope of resettlement abroad in ...

Kakuma is Kenya's second-largest refugee camp, home to over 300,000 people -- from South Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Burundi -- and managed by the Kenyan government and the United Nations High ...

Shirika therefore seeks to transform camp areas into formal towns with infrastructure that will foster economic growth and eventual self-reliance for refugees and host communities. “Kenya is ...

When Hawa Hassan was 5 years old, she was living in a refugee camp in Kenya. By seven, she was resettled in Seattle with a few other refugees from Somalia, waiting for her family to join her.

Along one of the many dirt tracks leading into Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp there is a large hidden compound, where inside, twice a week, adolescent girls gather to learn taekwondo, the martial ...