Somalis are returning to Kismayo in
a "voluntary" process to a homeland
still stricken by war, drought, and
hardship.
As well as the 16,000 new returnees,
Kismayo hosts some 40,000 people
displaced internally
Kismayo, Somalia - The camp sprawls
across a grey sand dune overlooking the
Indian Ocean. A multitude of small
shacks lashed together quickly by hand
using whatever could be found:
crumpled sheet-metal, acacia branches
and cardboard. Children play in heaps
of rubbish.
More than 16,000 people are living here,
destitute and stranded, on the fringes of
Kismayo, a port town in Jubaland state,
on Somalia's southern frontier.
"There is nothing, there are no good
services here… We don't have a house,
no education, no health, no work. We
don't know where to go and where to
find what we need," said Ahmed
Mohamed Abukar, a father who returned
to Kismayo - his hometown - in
February.
Abukar arrived in a truck with his wife
and six children, crossing the wild
border from northeastern Kenya where
his family had lived as refugees for
seven years in Dadaab, the world's
largest refugee camp.
source :
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/refugees-stranded-somalia-kenya-eviction-161004130855886.html