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    "content": "for Kenya and its national security. Due to lack of food in that country, the influx of Somali refugees has risen sharply, with about 1,400 arriving daily at the Dadaab Complex. I visited Daadab two weeks ago. Refugees arrive in extremely poor health. Nearly half of their children are severely malnourished. The three existing camps, Dagahaley, Ifo and Hagadera were built in the early 1990s to accommodate 19,000 people. They now house four times as many. About 65,000 live in makeshift tents in the camps outskirts. Because of overcrowding, refugees move in and out of the camps adversely affecting the livelihood of Kenyans in the neighbourhood. That also poses a security risk. Malnutrition and overcrowding in the camps must, therefore, be urgently addressed. It is for that reason that I directed the opening of Ifo II, a camp built by UNHCR to accommodate 40,000 refugees. Nevertheless, if the refugee situation is not to undermine our national security, additional steps must be taken. The Government is, therefore, proposing that a feeding camp is urgently set up within Somalia to absorb many who are in Daadab and to accommodate new refugees."
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