Photo: Allan Gichigi/IRIN
Tension is high at Dadaab refugee camp following the killing of Abdullahi Mahmud Osman on 13 July (file photo)
NAIROBI, 14 July 2010 (IRIN) – Hundreds of refugees have been moved from a camp in northern Kenya after the killing of a teenager sparked riots in the facility and violence between its Sudanese and Somali residents, according to an official.
Staff of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, held talks with community leaders in Dadaab to calm and reconcile the refugees following the 13 July killing .
“The situation has stabilized and meetings continue with community leaders in Ifo and Hargardera camps,” Emmanuel Nyabera, the UNHCR spokesman, told IRIN on 14 July. “Some 230 people have been relocated from Hargardera [where the killing took place] to Ifo.
Nyabera said the agency had received reports that boy’s body had been mutilated.
Amid the unrest in Hargardera, some dwellings were torched, according to Nyambera. The police were in the camp on 13 July to calm things down.
Halima Ali Durgube, the guardian of Abdullahi Mahmud Osman, the boy who was killed, told IRIN: “Abdullahi arrived from Somalia recently. He was with us for only four days. Today would have been his fifth day and he is dead.
source:www.world-countries.ne.com
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