02 Aug 2011 – Daily Monitoring Report
Key Headlines:
- Ramadan offensive threatens Somalia’s starving
- Ahlu Sunna meets in Abud-wak for the second day running
- UPDF soldiers killed in Somalia as Ramadan attacks kick-off
- Tension high in Dinsor Bay region
- Sudan announces ‘substantial’ aid package to Somalia
- British Prime Minister’s message for Ramadan
- ICRC calls for extra aid for Somalia drought victims
- UN ups Somalia aid
- Security risks overshadow aid delivery
SOMALI MEDIA
British Prime Minister’s message for Ramadan
02 Aug – Source: Radio Mogadishu, Bar-kulan, Shabelle and Kulmiye – 171 words
Prime Minister David Cameron has sent his best wishes to all Muslim communities in Britain and around the world at the start of the month of Ramadan. Mr. Cameron said Ramadan was a time to remind us of our duties and responsibilities and the importance of charity. The PM said:
“To all Muslim communities in the United Kingdom and around the world, I send you my warmest wishes at this time of Ramadan.
“This is a time for Muslims all over the world to put aside thoughts of them, and think of others. The terrible scenes of famine and suffering in the Horn of Africa specially Somalia cry out to all of us. They remind us of our duties and responsibilities to those beyond our shores.
“The importance of charity at this time is clear and I am proud that many different communities in the United Kingdom continue to come together to support many thousands – indeed millions – in desperate need. “As the holy month of Ramadan begins I wish you all peace and happiness.”
Ahlu Sunna meets in Abud-wak for the second day running
02 Aug- Source: Radio Bar-kulan, Shabelle- 139 words
Members of Ahlu Sunna Wal-Jama’a are meeting in Abud-wak for the second day running to form a ‘united administration’ representing the entire Ahlu Sunna in Galgadud region.
Organizing committee vice chairman, Ali Bashi Adan Diriye, told reporters that objective of the meeting is to form a new administration that represents all members from the central regions of Somalia.
Somaliland journalist association elects new leaders
01 Aug – Source: Somaliland Press – 153 words
The fourth general assembly meeting of the Somaliland Journalist Association (SOLJA) elected a new executive committee at gathering which was held from 29th to 31st July 2011 at Ambassador Hotel in Hargeisa.
SOLJA, the oldest and biggest journalist association in Somaliland whose members represent most, if not all of the country’s independent and state media professionals, discussed during the three-day session, a wide and diverse range of media related issues in Somaliland.
The three-day general meeting formed a new executive committee composed of 15 members who will head the organisation’s activities for the following three years.
The newly voted SOLJA chairman, Mr Hassan Mohamed Yusuf, thanked the delegates for electing him and the new executive committee to lead the organisation and pledged to continue to strengthen the association’s common welfare’s in the same manner as the out-going executive committee did so well in looking after the matters of the establishment.
http://somalilandpress.com/
Bomb explosion rocks Puntland capital amid 13th anniversary celebrations
02 Aug – Source: Raxabreeb – 134 words
A heavy explosion was heard in the heart of Garowe town, the capital of Somalia’s semiautonomous state of Puntland as the region celebrated the 13th anniversary of its establishment in 1998.
The explosion was heard in the centre of the town where thousands of people participating in the celebrations.
At least one person was killed and two others wounded in the blast, the head of Puntland minegroup Abdi Aziz Aw-Salad told RBC Radio.
http://www.raxanreeb.com/?p=
Tension high in Diinsor, Bay region
02 Aug – Source: Radio Bar-Kulan – 125 words
Tensions are reportedly high in Diinsor town, Bay region after local herders defied al Shabaab’s demands for contributions to their war in Somalia.
Al Shabaab administration in the area has threatened to punish all defaulters who refuse to meet their demands.
Local youth in the area have reportedly started arming themselves vowing to resist any possible attack. Defiant locals say they will not accept al Shabaab’s continued harassment.
ICRC calls for extra aid for Somalia drought victims
02 Jul – Source: Radio Bar-kulan – 153 words
The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for extra humanitarian aid to assist the needy in Somalia and who have fled the drought to neighbouring countries.
The ICRC says although humanitarian aid has been distributed to 162,000 people in the hardesthit central and southern Somalia, the drought still threatens the lives those in the insurgents-held area in the region.
The organisation’s economic security coordinator for Somalia, Andrea Heath, said the aid distribution has only reached a small percentage of those in need and more aid is required to help the entire needy population in Somalia.
REGIONAL MEDIA
Ugandan leader urges developed countries to assist Somalia
01 Aug – Source: African Press Agency APA, Afrique avenir – 314 words
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday called on the developed world to come in and help famine-stricken Somalia with relief which is much needed beyond Africa’s capacity.
Responding to a question from a journalist at a joint press conference with his visiting Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, President Museveni said Africa had done what it could to arrest the security issue in Somalia, first by establishing a unity government and providing peacekeepers.
The press conference marked the end of his four-day state visit to Rwanda.
“Africa has provided what it can when it initiated the establishment of a unity government and what is needed now is relief which calls for money which Africa as a continent does not have. We call upon our brothers in the world that have managed to gather money over the years to come to the aid of Somalia,” Museveni urged.
President Museveni said Somalia could not be referred to as a failed state, adding that there was room to help out the situation.
Sudan announces ‘substantial’ aid package to Somalia
02 Aug – Source: Sudan Tribune – 244 words
The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir told his Somali counterpart Sharif Sheikh Ahmed that his government will provide substantial aid to the drought-stricken country where many parts have been declared as famine areas by the United Nations.
Ahmed, who arrived in Khartoum on Monday, told Sudan news agency (SUNA) that his talks with Bashir on the situation in Somalia focused on the drought and the kind of support Khartoum can provide.
He said that Bashir expressed readiness to aid Somalia and told him that one is currently in the works.
The Somali president told SUNA that while Arab and African support is “good” it is yet to be coordinated adding that this an item he discussed with Bashir.
http://www.sudantribune.com/
Ethiopian PM meets with President of Somalia
01 Aug – Source: Ethiopian News Agency – 101 words
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi held discussions with President Sheik Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia here on Monday on issues related to the current situation in Somalia.
Ethiopian Ambassador to Somalia, Abdulaziz Ahmed, who attended the meeting told journalists that the two parties discussed ways to fight the drought in Somalia.
The two leaders also discussed ways of strengthening existing bilateral ties between the two countries, the ambassador said.
http://www.ena.gov.et/
Kenyan police investigate minister over terror link
02 Aug- Source: The People- 181 words
Police are investigating reports that Tourism Minister Najib Balala, Nominated MP Amina Abdalla and several imams financed al Shabaab.
Internal Security Permanent Secretary (PS) Francis Kimemia yesterday said police want to ascertain their alleged involvement, following revelations by a UN report last week.
“We will summon the minister and the MP to get their version since they have said the UN did not question them,” said Kimemia adding the investigations will take two weeks.
Speaking in Mombasa yesterday after attending the 16th biennial ambassador and high commissioners conference, Kimemia said the investigations will also involve imams of the mosques in question. “If the mosque will be culpable, it will be closed,” he said.
The PS said police will also investigate transactions at Habib Bank to see how money changes hands. Last week, Balala protested his innocence, saying he had no links with the Al-Shabab and has never met individuals whom it is claimed to donated 200,000 shillings (2,232 dollars) during a fund-raiser. The minister termed the report an act of malice as he was never questioned about the donation.
UPDF soldiers killed in Somalia as Ramadan attacks kick-off
02 Aug – Source: Daily Monitor – 193 words
Somali insurgents yesterday killed two Ugandan peacekeepers in an exchange of fire with two suicide bombers as al Shabaab threaten to intensify attacks against peacekeepers in the month of Ramadan.
The African Union spokesperson, Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda, warned that more attacks against the peacekeepers and transitional federal government forces will intensify in the next one month of Ramadan. This brings the number of Ugandans killed in a week to seven.
On Friday the insurgents killed and dragged the bodies of UPDF soldiers after intense fighting intended to clear way for transportation of humanitarian aid. “In an exchange of gunfire with the suicide bombers, two Amisom soldiers were wounded but died later of injuries. The incident happened at approximately 4pm,” Col. Ankunda said. He said two suicide bombers were killed before they could detonate their suicide vests.
Mr Ankunda said in a statement issued on Friday that the insurgents have been recruiting fighters to boost the expected intense attacks against Amisom forces.
The attack happened behind the Amisom frontline, in Wardhigley District, near Florenza Junction. Every year, during the month of Ramadan, the extremists have attacked civilians and Amisom troops using suicide bombers.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/
Don’t rush to criticise UN report, Kenyan Muslim leader tells colleagues
01 Aug – Source: Daily Nation – 376 words
A Muslim leader has asked his colleagues to read and understand the United Nations report on funding of terror activities at a Nairobi mosque before criticising it.
Kenya Muslims National Advisory Council (Kemnac) chairman Sheikh Juma Ngao said as leaders they should not criticise the report that was released last week because it was in connection with their religion but instead address the problem of al Shabaab in soberly.
“The issue of terrorism is in our midst and we cannot run away from it. That is why I am advising my fellow Muslim leaders, both in the clergy and in politics, to address the problem carefully,” said Sheikh Ngao.
He said there were several cases where youths had been recruited at the mosques and a number of Muslim leaders implicated in the process, hence people should not dismiss the report.
Al Shabaab, noted the sheikh, had been a threat to security in Kenya and no Muslim leader should link the militia group’s activities with jihad (Holy War).
“I would like to put it clear that there is no jihad in Somalia at the moment and Muslim leaders should not brainwash youths by recruiting them to fight the war. I am challenging those recruiting youths to be at the forefront in going to Somalia if it is true that there is a Holy War,” said Sheikh Ngao.
The Kemnac chairman also asked the government to conduct its independent investigation on the report and take immediate steps to stop any funding at the mosques.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/
AU to hold donor summit on Somalia famine
01 Aug – Source: Al Jazeera – 543 words
The African Union (AU) is to organise a donor conference later this month in a bid to raise money for millions of drought-affected people in Somalia.
AU Deputy Chairman Erasmus Mwencha said African heads of states, regional economic blocs and international organisations would gather at the AU’s Headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to map out strategies to help starving Somalis.
Mwencha issued the statement while visiting the AU peacekeeping mission in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The UN, which has declared a famine in two regions in the country’s south, says $2.5bn is needed to alleviate the crisis.
The summit, due to be held on August 9, comes as aid groups step up operations for millions of starving people in the Horn of Africa nation and amid criticism that African countries have not done enough to alleviate the situation.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Second UAE relief team flies to Somalia
02 Aug – Source: the National – 628 words
A second UAE humanitarian aid team will fly to the Horn of Africa tomorrow with immediate help for 20,000 families facing starvation in the worst drought in 60 years.
Officials from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment will distribute 900 tonnes of food and dig more than 60 water wells in Somalia, in coordination with the Red Crescent Authority and other UAE aid agencies.
The aid team is the second to leave in less than a week, after directives by the President, Sheikh Khalifa, to provide emergency relief to the region.
“The organisation has collected a lot of information on the drought and decided to create a team … to travel soon to areas in Somalia,” said Ibrahim Bumelha, the establishment’s vice president.
Each family in distress will be given a month’s supply of food: 25 kilograms of rice, 10kg of wheat, 5kg of sugar, corn, cooking oil and juice. The supplies will be bought in Ethiopia and transported to the capital, Addis Ababa, ready for distribution in Somalia from Thursday.
The organisation also plans to start work immediately on digging both surface and deep-water wells, at a cost of Dh2 million. The relief work will be carried out in collaboration with UAE and Somalian agencies, and the UAE embassy in Ethiopia.
The charity also announced a fund-raising campaign for Ramadan, a day after the United Nations appealed for another US$1.4 billion (Dh5.1bn) to provide life-saving assistance to more than 12 million people. Officials encouraged both UAE nationals and expatriates to donate generously.
http://www.thenational.ae/
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
UN ups Somalia aid
02 Aug – Source: AFP, SAPA – 231 words
Aid groups have ramped up operations to help millions of drought-stricken people in the Horn of Africa, with the UN World Food Programme expanding its airlifts of emergency food supplies.
The WFP last week began airlifting a peanut-based paste for malnourished children in Mogadishu and widened the distribution to Doolow, in the south of Somalia.
“Another aircraft arrived today, the sixth flight since the airlift began on Wednesday,” said WFP spokesman David Orr, speaking from the war-torn Somali capital.
“That brings the amount of specialised highly nutritious food delivered to Mogadishu for malnourished children to more than 80t.”
About 12million people have been affected by the devastating drought, the worst to hit the region in decades.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/
U.S. to ease anti-terrorism rules to help Somali famine victims
02 Aug – Source: Washington Post – 891 words
The Obama administration is moving toward easing anti-terrorism restrictions in Somalia that have hampered delivery of urgently needed aid to famine-stricken parts of the country, officials said Monday.
The shift reflects the administration’s alarm about the drought in E ast Africa, the region’s worst in two decades. About 2.2 million of the 3.7 million people affected by famine live in parts of southern Somalia ruled by al Shabaab, an Islamist extremist group linked to al-Qaeda.
Under current restrictions, U.S.-funded groups could face prosecution if they pay “taxes” or tolls demanded by al Shabaab on food shipments. Humanitarian groups say that has only added to the severe difficulties of working in southern Somalia, where al Shabaab has killed and threatened Western aid workers.
“What needs to happen is all actors on the ground — insurgents, the U.S. government and donors — need to lift any restrictions” on providing aid, said Shannon Scribner, humanitarian policy manager at the relief agency Oxfam.
The situation has posed a dilemma for the Obama administration. According to experts on Somalia, if the regulations are relaxed, it is inevitable that some aid will be siphoned off by al Shabaab.
Ramadan offensive threatens Somalia’s starving
02 Aug – Source: CNN – 516 words
The Ramadan offensive has begun here, an obvious date to rally supporters of the al Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab militant group, but this year feels a little different.
I was in the Somali capital two years ago and every night, just before the call to prayer signaled the breaking of the fast, we’d hear a cacophony of mortar rounds and gunfights.
Somali friends told me back then the militants believed dying in battle while still fasting would ensure they “entered heaven without even taking their shoes off.”
This year Al-Shabaab’s grip on the capital and the loyalty of Somalis feels more tenuous. Since I was last here in 2009 the rains have failed and the drought has spread bringing with it famine and desperation.
Al-Shabaab insists that the famine crippling their families and communities is a “crusader” invention — an excuse for occupation. For al-Shabaab, the crusader term can apply to anyone opposing them and can include the U.N., international aid groups and the African Union.
Even as crops withered and livestock starved, Al-Shabaab kept its ban on aid groups operating in territory it controls in Southern and Central Somalia, and parts of the capital.
That’s when people began defying them and making their way — many walking for days — to the capital, Mogadishu.
The drought is Somalia’s worst in 60 years and the U.N. refugee agency estimates 1.5 million Somalis have arrived in the capital.
Meanwhile, African Union intelligence sources say Al-Shabaab is massing hundreds of troops in the parts of Mogadishu it controls for a show of force during Ramadan, which began Monday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/
In starving Somalia there’s no food to break the fast
02 Aug – Source: Daily Star – 514 words
Muslims around the world mark sundown during the holy month of Ramadan with extravagant dinners to break their daily fasts. That kind of nighttime celebration is unthinkable this year for most Somalis, who already are suffering empty stomachs during the worst famine in a generation.
Tens of thousands of Somalis already have fled starvation to the world’s largest refugee camp in neighboring Kenya, where Mohammad Mohamud Abdulle said people can’t partake in the fast without food.
“Today is the worst day I ever faced. All my family are hungry and I have nothing to feed them,” Abdulle said on Monday. “I feel the hunger that forced me from my home has doubled here.”
Somalis fleeing famine say they simply don’t have enough food to prepare a traditional feast to end a day of fasting. Refugees say they have been unintentionally fasting for weeks or months, but without the end-of-day meal to regain their strength.
“I cannot fast because I cannot get food to break it and eat before the morning,” said Nur Ahmad, a father of six at a camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu called Badbado. Ahmad’s wife died last year during childbirth, he said.
The U.N. says more than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa are in need of food aid, but that 2.2 million need aid in a region of south-central Somalia controlled by the Al-Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab, which has not let many aid agencies operate in its territory.
However, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced Monday they had distributed food to 162,000 people in Somalia’s insurgent-ruled southern regions, while the U.N. food agency increased its relief airlifts that kicked off last week.
Since Wednesday, the WFP has delivered more than 80 tons of emergency food aid to malnourished children in Mogadishu and expanded the distribution to Doolow region in the south of Somalia.
Africa bank says Somalia war key to famine
01 Aug – Source: AFP – 560 words
The Head of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, blamed the famine in Africa’s Horn of Africa region on climate change and “our collective failure to end the Somali civil war.” “While this is a tragedy triggered by the worst drought in 60 years, it is largely about our collective failure to end the Somali civil war,” Kaberuka said. Much of Somalia has been wracked by lawlessness and violence since longtime leader Mohammed Siad Barre was ousted in a coup in late 1991.
“Before food shortages become famine, there’s something else that comes into play,” Donald Kaberuka told AFP in an interview.
“In this case, the epicenter of the crisis is in those parts of Somalia that are not functioning,” he said.
The two regions in southern Somalia where the UN last month declared a famine are controlled by rebel groups, including the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab.
Shebab is “playing with lives” by barring foreign aid from reaching starving people in drought-hit Somalia, Kaberuka said
A famine declared last month in two southern Somali regions controlled by the Shabaab rebel movement has grown to huge proportions and now threatens millions in the Horn of Africa movement with starvation and malnutrition, Kaberuka said.
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Security risks overshadow aid delivery
01 Aug – Source: IRIN – 1246 words
Mandera town, on the border between Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, is the hub for aid operations in the drought-affected Mandera district in Kenya. It could have been a possible logistics base for sending help by road to the famine-affected areas in south-central Somalia, but the security risk is high.
About four months ago, Al-Shabab militia took over Bulo Hawo on the Somali side, and continue to mount sporadic attacks in the area even though it has been retaken by the authorities. On 27 July, the group used a mobile phone to trigger an explosion in Mandera town, killing a Kenyan police officer a few hundred metres from a UN office.
The border between Kenya and Somalia is not defined by any geographic or ethnic boundary – there are Somalis on either side. The town is the capital of Mandera district, where most NGOs and UN agencies responding to the drought are based.
An aid worker told IRIN: “We expect the attacks by the militia to increase.” Police have increasingly come under fire on either side of the border. In mid-July, bullets were flying over the two linked towns, resulting in the death of a senior police official employed by Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), which now controls Bulo Hawo.
International aid workers are required to travel with armed police escorts at all times. “The police are more vulnerable as Kenyan authorities are seen as helping to train TFG police,” said an aid worker. “So Al-Shabab is trying to destabilize the area and regain control.”
However, Benson Leparmorijo, district commissioner of Mandera East, where Mandera town is located, preferred to call the attacks “isolated incidents”. Opinions vary on whether the tense security situation in Mandera town and neighbouring areas could deteriorate.
Leparmorijo said the attacks would have no bearing on aid delivery. “I am talking to the TFG officials on the other side regularly… about security measures.”
Ethiopian troops, supporting the TFG, also man the border in Bulo Hawo and intervene when necessary.
Local NGOs say they are not the targets of the al Shabab attacks, but the authorities are, and this would not affect aid operations. “I don’t think the militia want to upset the local people – they will lose any chance of gaining popular support,” said an aid worker.
In recent weeks, most international aid staff have been advised not to travel to Mandera, so agencies rely mostly on national staff and local partners.
http://www.irinnews.org/
Somalis waste away as insurgents block escape from famine
01 Aug – Source: New York Times – 1276
The Shabaab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabaab territory.
The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by forcing out many Western aid organizations, depriving drought victims of desperately needed food. The situation is growing bleaker by the day, with tens of thousands of Somalis already dead and more than 500,000 children on the brink of starvation.
Every morning, emaciated parents with emaciated children stagger into Banadir Hospital, a shell of a building with floors that stink of diesel fuel because that is all the nurses have to fight off the flies. Babies are dying because of the lack of equipment and medicine. Some get hooked up to adult-size intravenous drips — pediatric versions are hard to find — and their compromised bodies cannot handle the volume of fluid.
Most parents do not have money for medicine, so entire families sit on old-fashioned cholera beds, with basketball-size holes cut out of the middle, taking turns going to the bathroom as diarrhea streams out of them.
“This is worse than 1992,” said Dr. Lul Mohamed, Banadir’s head of pediatrics, referring to Somalia’s last famine. “Back then, at least we had some help.”
Ramadan offensive threatens Somalia’s starving
02 Aug – Source: CNN – 516 words
The Ramadan offensive has begun here, an obvious date to rally supporters of the al Qaeda affiliated al Shabaab militant group, but this year feels a little different.
I was in the Somali capital two years ago and every night, just before the call to prayer signaled the breaking of the fast, we’d hear a cacophony of mortar rounds and gunfights. (…) Al Shabaab insists that the famine crippling their families and communities is a “crusader” invention — an excuse for occupation. For al Shabaab, the crusader term can apply to anyone opposing them and can include the U.N., international aid groups and the African Union.
Even as crops withered and livestock starved, al Shabaab kept its ban on aid groups operating in territory it controls in Southern and Central Somalia, and parts of the capital. That’s when people began defying them and making their way — many walking for days — to the capital, Mogadishu.
The drought is Somalia’s worst in 60 years and the U.N. refugee agency estimates 1.5 million Somalis have arrived in the capital.
Meanwhile, African Union intelligence sources say al Shabaab is massing hundreds of troops in the parts of Mogadishu it controls for a show of force during Ramadan, which began Monday. The migrants have made their way to the areas of the capital controlled by the African Union forces supporting the fragile Somali Transitional Federal Government.
Even that is not enough to guarantee their safety. (…) But al Shabaab, which has regularly operated from civilian areas, has been left militarily exposed as the civilians flee from them. Without the civilians for cover Al-Shabaab is more at risk from a military offensive. Perhaps realizing that, they’ve tried to target the displacement camps in the capital — an attempt to scare people into returning home.
For now that tactic isn’t working but it has raised concern among U.N. agencies at the potential risk posed by al Shabaab to jeopardize aid deliveries.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/
Refugees move into Dadaab extension
02 Aug – Source: Guardian – 793 words
The UN refugee agency has begun moving displaced Somalis to a new camp extension at the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya to relieve overcrowding.
Relief groups are struggling with an influx of mainly Somali refugees fleeing drought and conflict that has left more than 12 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Some 70,000 refugees have arrived in Kenya in the last two months; 40,000 in July alone, according to UNHCR. The number of refugees at Dadaab has swelled to 440,000.
More than 3,000 Somali refugees have been moved from the outskirts of Dadaab – 60 miles from the Somali border – to what is known as the “Ifo extension”.
The site will provide tents for 90,000 people by the end of November. Latrines and water reservoirs have been constructed and are already in use by the 3,207 people who have moved there since last Monday. Two sites, previously known as Ifo 2 and Ifo 3, have been consolidated to form the new Ifo extension camp.
Ifo 2 was designed to relieve overcrowding last year, before the latest influx, when numbers at the camp hit more than 300,000. Dadaab is the biggest refugee complex in the world and was officially declared full in 2008. The complex is made up of three camps – Dagahaley, Ifo, Hagadera – and now the Ifo extension.
Some 15,000 homes made from mud and brick with corrugated iron roofing were going to be built at Ifo 2 until UNHCR received a letter from the Kenyan government asking work on the site to be stopped. Only 1,116 dwellings were built and, of the three schools to be built, two were finished. There is a health clinic and four water wells. As more refugees arrived in Kenya, some have been setting up tents by the Ifo 2 site, in what became known as Ifo 3.
Even with the new Ifo extension site, aid officials fear that it will not be enough to cope with the numbers pouring across the border.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/