Kenya aid agencies strain to help 50,000 Ethiopian refugees
Al Jazeera reports from the border town of Moyale, where food, medical care and shelter are short for people fleeing fighting in Ethiopia.
More than 50,000 Ethiopian refugees have crossed into Kenya, and aid agencies are struggling to supply them with food, medical care and shelter, according to Al Jazeera.
The refugees are fleeing fighting in Ethiopia, the broadcaster said. Its report did not identify which part of Ethiopia they came from, which conflict they were escaping, or which aid organisations are involved.
Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi reported from Moyale, the Kenyan border town where the refugees have been arriving. The report described agencies unable to meet the needs of the new arrivals, with food, medical care and shelter named as the shortages.
Kenya and Ethiopia share a long land border, and Moyale sits on the Kenyan side of it. The figure of more than 50,000 covers only those who have already crossed into Kenya. The reports carried no estimate of how many more people are on the way.
Neither the Kenyan government nor the Ethiopian government was quoted in the reports, and no named aid agency gave a statement or issued a count of its own. The reports also gave no breakdown of the 50,000 by age or sex, and no account of where the refugees are being housed inside Kenya.
Modern Ghana carried the item under the same headline as a short video, with no reporting beyond it.
What the reports establish is the direction of the movement and its size: people crossing from Ethiopia into Kenya at Moyale, more than 50,000 of them, and agencies saying they cannot keep up with the food, medical care and shelter those arrivals need.
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