Kenya: The stranded 2 000 Somali Refugees

A UNHCR team is heading to Liboi on the Kenya/Somali border Friday (27 October 2006) to arrange the transfer of some 2,000 Somali refugees reported to be waiting there after the shuttling to the Dadaab camps was suspended mid-October. The suspension was put in force after it was discovered that Kenyan nationals were fraudulently presenting themselves as refugees, and that refugees already registered at the Dadaab camps were posing as new refugees with the aim of receiving multiple registration cards and consequently more assistance.