16 000 Somalis are living in "no man's land"

These people are fleeing severe drought that hit the region called the Horn of Africa, and have departed towards Kenya. But getting there fields are crowded and can not return to their countries.

A report by the NGO Save the Children found that over 16,000 Somali refugees live in a veritable "no man's land" in makeshift shelters.These people are fleeing severe drought that hit the region called the Horn of Africa and Kenya have broken into the neighboring country of Somalia, where the largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab."The number of refugees fleeing the crisis in Somalia food is so high that there is a delay of more than 16 000 people to identify entries in the refugee camps in Kenya," the NGO said in a statement issued in Nairobi.On the last day July 20, the UN officially declared a state of famine in two regions of southern Somalia - Bakool and Lower Shabelle - something unheard of in this country over the past two decades.These people "are forced to live outside in the woods and in makeshift shelters with the materials that are finding." Moreover, "families, many with small children, are living without basic hygienic conditions and away from clinics, schools and other services," it said.Save the Children said that the delay in identifying these people is the lack of employees working in the registration process, and made a call to the Kenyan authorities to increase resources in the fields."All the boys and girls fleeing hunger and war in Somalia arrive exhausted the field, but clinging to life. We must do more than force them to live in the bush," says the head of NGOs in Kenya, Prasant Naik .The Dadaab refugee camp (eastern Kenya), which has a capacity of 90 thousand people, now houses more than 400,000 - mostly Somalis. Nearly half of Somalia's population - 3.7 million people - suffers from the crisis, of which 2.8 million live in the South, according to UN information.The drought that punishes the Horn of Africa is the worst region in the last 70 years and its devastating effects remain in critical condition about 11 million people, according to the UN.