IOM pitches last tents at camp in Kenya

International Organization for Migration (IOM) teams in Kenya have completed the pitching of 8,315 tents providing shelter to 30,000 Somalis displaced by drought who could not be accommodated at the heavily over-crowded Daadab refugee camp. The tents have been pitched on an extended site at IFO 2, close to Dadaab which is currently hosting more than 383,000 Somali refugees., the organization said in a statement. Meanwhile, IOM, in collaboration with UNHCR and the Ethiopian government’s Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (ARRA), is continuing to relocate displaced Somalis in Ethiopia. The Somalis are being taken from the overcrowded Dollo Ado Transit camp to the new Bur Amino camp. Nearly 1,500 people have been transported since the opening of Bur Amino on 30th November.