Refugee crisis 2011 East Africa drought

new ifo ii camp in kenya, built try , ease overcrowding in dadaab complex.

by 15 september, more 920,000 refugees somalia had reportedly fled neighboring countries, particularly kenya , ethiopia. @ height of crisis in june 2011, unhcr base in dadaab, kenya hosted @ least 440,000 people in 3 refugee camps, though maximum capacity 90,000. more 1,500 refugees continued arrive every day southern somalia, 80 per cent of whom women , children. un high commissioner refugees spokeswoman melissa fleming said many people had died en route. within camps, infant mortality had risen threefold in few months leading july 2011. overall mortality rate 7.4 out of 10,000 per day, more 7 times high emergency rate of 1 out of 10,000 per day. there upsurge in sexual violence against women , girls, number of cases reported increasing on 4 times. incidents of sexual violence occurred during travel refugee camps, cases reported in camps or new refugees went in search firewood. put them @ high risk of acquiring hiv/aids. according un representative radhika coomaraswamy, food crisis had forced many women leave homes in search of assistance, without protection of family , clan.

in july 2011, dolo odo, ethiopia hosted @ least 110,000 refugees somalia, of whom had arrived recently. 3 camps @ bokolomanyo, melkadida, , kobe exceeded maximum capacity; 1 more camp reportedly being built while planned in future. water shortage reportedly affected facilities.

according lutheran world federation, military activities in conflict zones of southern somalia , scaling of relief operations had december 2011 reduced movement of migrants. february 2012, several thousand people had begun returning homes , farms.