Aid agencies struggle to help more than 50,000 Ethiopian refugees in Kenya

Aljazeera
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Nov 15, 2026
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This is a queue of hundreds of refugees
who have come to this school to register
Mr.
with UNHCR and other NGOs to be able to get food assistance.
They have fled
from across the border where fighting is ongoing
and many of them are saying that they came
with nothing. They're talking about
the horrors that were happening back home.
During these weeks of fighting,
we spoke to a woman who's just arrived and she said that
the reason why she decided to come here
is because of you know intense fighting that was happening
in the last two days.
They saw intense gunfire, heavy weapons as well,
and she said some of her friends died
during that period, so she had to bring her little children here.
So over here, the NGOs, there's Red Cross, there's UNHCR,
there's UNICEF, they are registering the refugees.
So the situation is quite dire.
People need food, they need medical assistance, they need shelter.
The government here in Kenya is saying that they want to move.
the refugees to another area that is more spacious
and it is the rainy season now so that comes with its own challenges.
The displaced people here say that they are safe
but they really want to go back home and they are urging
their local authorities back home to do something about it
so that they can be able to return back to their homes.
