IRC in HuffPost: Lives of Somalian refugees

  The Huffington Post published an article yesterday by Joanne Offer, IRC information officer in Nairobi, describing the miserable conditions in which a quarter-million Somalian refugees are living in the overcrowded Dadaab camp in eastern Kenya.  Dr. Vincent Kahi, the IRC's health coordinator, described a cholera outbreak: "To date, the number of cases . . .  has been small—just 26—and we have managed to contain the outbreak, but resources in the camps remain massively overstretched and provide ideal conditions for diseases like cholera to keep coming back.  All [aid] agencies in Dadaab are doing their best, but the sheer number of people in such a small space and in an area with water scarcity is a recipe for future problems." Looking Beyond Somalia's Pirates And Into Kenya's Refugee Camps (The Huffington Post)