The sprawling Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya's northwest houses more than 180,000 people. One of them is Annett Poni, a disabled woman from South Sudan. With little hope of returning home any time soon, she decided to launch her own restaurant to support her family and create opportunities for other refugees.
Authorities in Kenya have announced a plan to create a hotline to fight human trafficking in the country.
The border agencies of eight countries in the East and Horn of Africa have committed to the establishment of ''inter-agency cross-border technical working groups'' to facilitate the management of migrant flows, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports.
Former refugees returned to the Kenyan camp of Kakuma to tell those still living there how they coped with hardship and made a success of their lives.
Refugees in northwestern Kenya have found a way to create income by selling produce from their own patches of land. The plots are allotted as part of a social and economic development project funded by the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa.
The German chancellor has rejected a refugee limit for Germany. Bangladesh is becoming one of the largest countries of origin for migrants to Italy. And in Kenya, war refugees are practicing to become athlete champions. This and more in today's news roundup.
The Kenyan middle-distance runner Tegla Loroupe, a five-time gold medal winner at the IAAF World Half Marathon, has opened a track and field centre at the Ngong refugee camp in Kenya, for those who are fleeing war.
The Italian Coast Guard and NGO crews have rescued thousands of refugees from the Mediterranean over the weekend. Australia wants to put an end to its visa program for skilled workers and the South Sudan crisis has resulted in an emergency in Kenya's Kakuma camp. Read more in today's news roundup.
Manuela is on the run. She left the war and famine of her native South Sudan behind. However, a heavy drought is also threatening the existence of many people in her new Northern Kenyan refuge.
Refugees in the Kakuma camp in Kenya are struggling to get food and water. The Italian coast guard alongside NGOs managed to save 3,000 migrants in the Mediterranean this weekend and InfoMigrants gives you a look into the world's biggest refugee camps. All this and more in today's roundup
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Kakuma was once a sleepy, remote region of Kenya. Now it is home to the country's second-largest refugee camp. There appears to be no end in sight to the stream of people escaping war-torn South Sudan.