{"id":451777,"date":"2011-07-01T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/01\/regional-drought-causing-alarming-overcrowding-at-kenyan-refugee-camp-un\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:48:13","slug":"regional-drought-causing-alarming-overcrowding-at-kenyan-refugee-camp-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/regional-drought-causing-alarming-overcrowding-at-kenyan-refugee-camp-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Drought Causing &#8216;Alarming&#8217; Overcrowding At Kenyan Refugee Camp &#8211; UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"24.1068917018\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/region.asp?Region=AFRICA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/unnews180.jpg\" alt=\"UN News Service (New\u00a0York)\" title=\"Visit UN News Service (New\u00a0York)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>30 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The United Nations humanitarian agency reported today that the numbers of new arrivals of Horn of Africa drought victims at an already overcrowded refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya is growing &#8220;at alarming rates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: &#8220;The overcrowded Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa continues to receive new arrivals at alarming rates. The current number of registered refugees &#8211; 353,921 &#8211; is four times its capacity. Twenty thousand people have arrived in the last two weeks alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The site is the largest refugee camp in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week OCHA estimated that 10 million people across the Horn of Africa are facing a severe food crisis following a prolonged drought in the region, with some areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda, experiencing their worst drought conditions in 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan Government has declared the drought situation a national disaster, with malnutrition mortality rates in northern Kenya exceeding emergency thresholds, OCHA reported.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107010900.html\" title=\"Regional Drought Causing 'Alarming' Overcrowding At Kenyan Refugee Camp - UN\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regional Drought Causing &#8216;Alarming&#8217; Overcrowding At Kenyan Refugee Camp &#8211; UN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 30 June 2011 The United Nations humanitarian agency reported today that the numbers of new arrivals of Horn of Africa drought victims at an already overcrowded refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya is growing &#8220;at alarming rates.&#8221; The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: &#8220;The overcrowded Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa continues to receive new arrivals at alarming rates. The current number of registered refugees &#8211; 353,921 &#8211; is four times its capacity. Twenty thousand people have arrived in the last two weeks alone.&#8221; The site is the largest refugee camp in the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Regional Drought Causing &#039;Alarming&#039; Overcrowding At Kenyan Refugee Camp - UN - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/regional-drought-causing-alarming-overcrowding-at-kenyan-refugee-camp-un\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Regional Drought Causing &#039;Alarming&#039; Overcrowding At Kenyan Refugee Camp - UN - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"30 June 2011 The United Nations humanitarian agency reported today that the numbers of new arrivals of Horn of Africa drought victims at an already overcrowded refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya is growing &quot;at alarming rates.&quot; The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: &quot;The overcrowded Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa continues to receive new arrivals at alarming rates. 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