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Kenya: Focus on solutions for Dadaab refugees critical as humanitarian needs increase

One year after Kenya announced it will close refugee camps in the country by the end of June this year, refugees in Dadaab are staring at a perfect storm.

Durable solutions are still not within reach for the over 200,000 refugees in Dadaab, humanitarian assistance remains way below what is needed, and the reverberating economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic along with soaring prices of essential commodities have nibbled away at people’s coping capacities.

All this comes at a time when refugees in Dadaab say they are having to share their meagre resources with rising numbers of new arrivals in the camps, who have been forced to move in search of food and water as a withering drought has swept east Africa. New arrivals cannot access services provided in the camps after Kenya stopped registering asylum seekers in 2016.

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