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[Published: Thursday September 03 2009]

Somali camps 'unfit for humans'

London, 03 Sept-(ANA)-The aid agency Oxfam has condemned 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 Lomassaid. (ANA)

FA/ANA/03 September 2009---

 


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