Kenya receives influx of Somalis

September 29, 2006

Some 24,000 people have entered the Dadaab camps in northern Kenya since the start of the year, with the latest flare-ups in south Somalia pushing arrivals up to between 300 to 400 a day, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said. The Dadaab camps in Kenyadate from 1991, when Somali warlords ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and ushered in a period of anarchy.As well as Kenya, other Somalis have been fleeing west into Ethiopia's Ogaden region or north to Djibouti.