Background
The East and Horn of Africa continue to suffer from conflict and displacement. Kenya remains the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa. While most people fleeing from conflict in South Sudan arrive in Kakuma in northern Kenya, most Somali refugees flee to Dadaab, located in Garissa County in the former North Eastern Province of Kenya.
The Dadaab refugee complex has a population of 355,709 refugees and asylum seekers (31/05/2014) and consists of five camps. 96% of the refugees are from Somalia. The first camp was established in 1991, when refugees fleeing the civil war in Somalia started to cross the border into Kenya. A second large influx occurred in 2011, when some 130,000 refugees arrived, fleeing drought and famine in southern Somalia.