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Angelina Jolie visits 'one of the most dire' refugee camps at Kenyan Somali border.

Press Releases, 12 September 2009

Dadaab, Kenya UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp situated on the Kenya-Somali border on Saturday. Describing the camp as 'one of the most dire' she had seen, Jolie concluded her visit by asking "if this is the better solution, then what must it be like in Somalia?"

During her day-long visit, Jolie visited one of the three camps that together host around 285,000 refugees. She met a number of families including a mother just arrived in the camp, after walking for days with her three young children to flee war-torn Somalia.

Jolie witnessed the daily reality of life in Dadaab at a water collection point where women and young children regularly queue for hours each day at water taps that are switched off for hours on end. After visiting a number of shelters she said "the toilets are already overflowing. There is not even enough space for trash dumps so people are living amongst the garbage."

Jolie arrived in the camp well informed on the critical situation arising from the lack of space and water. She heard about the outbreak of cholera earlier in the year from UNHCR staff and noted that "with up to 7,000 refugees arriving from Somalia each month and rain on the horizon, they say it will be hard to contain the next outbreak."

Jolie also met with families who have been living in the camp for many years and who are hosting newly arrived refugees resulting in up to 20 or more people sharing a space intended for just one family.

"What is amazing is that as more and more people come into the camp, the Somali families continue to be generous with what little they have. Even if that means having one eighth of the water they need and their children suffering from dehydration," said Jolie.

Liz Ahua, UNHCR Representative for Kenya, asked Jolie about her impressions to which Jolie replied "the Somali families I met today are full of warmth and affection. I wish more people could meet them, then they would have a stronger desire to help."

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres visited Dadaab last month and received assurances from the Kenyan Government that the urgent issue of granting land for an additional camp would soon be addressed. During his 5 August visit, he described Dadaab as "the most difficult camp situation in the world." He pledged interim UNHCR measures to improve the living conditions of the refugees by upgrading the aging water and sanitation systems, increasing health services and providing adequate shelter and nutrition as well as giving more funding to support the local community. "If we don't receive more land soon, it will be impossible to avert a major humanitarian crisis," Liz Ahua, said during a discussion with Jolie.

Guterres committed an additional US$20 million for refugees and the Dadaab host community and called for massive international donor support. UNHCR recently began moving 12,000 refugees to the Kakuma camp in northern Kenya as an emergency measure for new arrivals.

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[TheJilibvideocenter]

thank you for your support AJ reason why i said that is i have been a refugee in this particular camp 9yrs ago.

thank God i'm in the U.S now i pray everyday to God to help the people i left behind.

[thoostorm4]

@dhuloz4eva ramthat horn of africa up your homophobic ass you sad fuck

[thoostorm4]

@dhuloz4eva you give africa a chance znd you get turds like you fuck off boy

[thoostorm4]

@thoostorm4 goshineshoes tapdance????inotherwords fuckoff quit e maing me with yerwhiney bullfuckasschump

[CushiticSomalianMale]

@thoostorm4

and who is your people.. and infact who gives afuck about who ur people is, u fagget if you aint a African from Somalia.. then i suggest you take your noisy cirious ass someplace else, this is about african Somali videos and about a kind white woman giving to the poor... so again take ur off topic ass someplace else you envious closet-Racist fagget!

[thoostorm4]

@CushiticSomalianMale mypople wereallkilled soquit yermiserable whining

[CushiticSomalianMale]

@dhuloz4eva

seen fam... man its a damn shame whats going on in this wicked upside down world... walahi bro its crazy, and when will these al shabaab nutheads get wiped out man, stoping the aid food when its a time of famine crisis and ect ect... madness than anyways brother thanks for awakening me about this publicity hoodRat... and ima bell you today fam ima call you, holla mar Dhow ayaa kusoo wici doonaa walaalkiis... Peace - Nabad Galyo and Ramadan Wanaagsan

[dhuloz4eva]

@CushiticSomalianMale DONT BUY IT MAN ITS PUBLICITY SHE AINT DO SHYT FAM SHE JUS WENT AROUND LUKD AT THA KIDS LIKE THEY WS A FREAK SHOW, GOT HER ACCOUNTANT TO THROW DEM SOME CHUMP CHANGE N BOOM SHE WS GONE AGAIN FUK EM ALL

[wiibot15]

why only for girls?

[CushiticSomalianMale]

God bless Angelina Julie she helped my cushitic-Somali peoples on both sides of the border both in south Somalia and estern kenya, hence ethnic Somalian inhabited lands... and she also helped other neighbours of my Somali peoples, so yeah bless Angelina she a beautfyul good hearted human beeing