NinBrown Posted September 3, 2009 The aid agency Oxfam has decried the conditions in which hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict in Somalia are being forced to live. It says the overcrowded and badly managed camps in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are "barely fit for humans". Dadaab camp in north-eastern Kenya was meant to hold 90,000 refugees, but is now home to almost 300,000 people, and a further 8,000 arrive each month. Oxfam has called on Kenya's government to urgently allocate more land. "We really need extra land, extra space, to be able to spread people out," Oxfam's Paul Smith Lomas told the BBC. "And that land needs to be allocated soon. We've had assurances for months and months now. Now we need action." Kenya's commissioner for refugees, Peter Kusimba, told the BBC that the pace may have been slow, but land was being earmarked to decongest the camp. As fighting continues in Somalia many are unable to flee the country. Afgooye, near the capital Mogadishu, is home to almost half a million Somalis and is the world's densest concentration of displaced people, the BBC's Will Ross reports from Nairobi. Insecurity makes it increasingly difficult for local and international agencies to deliver aid there, he adds. Oxfam has described the situation as a "human tragedy of unthinkable proportions" and says the international response has been "shamefully inadequate". "The ultimate solution to the situation and the needs in Somalia has to be peace, has to be a politically negotiated peace settlement," Mr Smith Lomas said. "Much is being done, and much more must be done. Until people experience safety and peace on the ground, then we will have to continue responding to these humanitarian needs," he added. Somalia is nominally ruled by a UN-backed government, but Islamist insurgents control large areas. The failed Horn of Africa state has not had a functioning central government since 1991. http://news.bbc.co.u k/1/hi/world/africa/ 8235089.stm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dhagax-Tuur Posted September 3, 2009 This is really sad. May Allah have His mercy on our people. The Dhadhaab camp was initially intended for 100,000 people and now there are over 300,000. Illaahow Somaali u naxariiso. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Abu-Salman Posted September 3, 2009 Oxfam has called on Kenya's government to urgently allocate more land. "We really need extra land, extra space, to be able to spread people out," Oxfam's Paul Smith Lomas told the BBC. "And that land needs to be allocated soon. We've had assurances for months and months now. Now we need action." The key issue has always been Kenya's refusal to allow the camp to expand in a land that, most ironically, belong to those suffering Somalis (the occupied NFD, which clearly rejected Kenyan claims in an internationally supervised referendum, when that country became independent in 1960). On the other hand, we have the worst humanitarian crisis in the vast occupied Somali Galbeed, where Addis Abeba is litterally starving children to deaths by their thousands. How could an intelligent human being, let alone a Muslim, be focused instead on the "my-tuulo-will-starv e-last" contest, with scores marked by some visit by an obscure Westerner delegation? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar Posted September 4, 2009 How could an intelligent human being, let alone a Muslim, be focused instead on the "my-tuulo-will-starv e-last" contest, with scores marked by some visit by an obscure Westerner delegation? Aawey dadka tuulooyinkaas ku faantamo, mee ka jawaabaan this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Curly Posted September 4, 2009 Yep I saw that on the Metro today, I hope Allah makes it easier on them all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Som@li Posted September 4, 2009 Illah ha u fududayo dhamaan, Somalis have suffered enough Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayidSomal Posted September 4, 2009 Originally posted by Abu-Salman: How could an intelligent human being, let alone a Muslim, be focused instead on the "my-tuulo-will-starv e-last" contest, with scores marked by some visit by an obscure Westerner delegation? i would like to answer this question on behalf of my brothers - and here it is: Because our intelligence and reasoning is clouded by disease called Clanism to point of being devoid of any Islamic/Muslim solidarity my Allah (SWT) cure my brothers of this disease. Amiin. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NGONGE Posted September 4, 2009 ^^ RUBBISH reply. Read his question again. You guys wad iska hadashaan.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SayidSomal Posted September 4, 2009 ^adiga iska hadlay - anigu su'aal baan ka jawaabay :cool: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
