Kakuma
Coordinates: 3 ° 43 ' N , 34 ° 52' E
Kakuma is a refugee camp in Turkana County about 120 km north of Lodwar in northern Kenya with over 100,000 inhabitants.
The camp was set up in 1992 for around 30,000–40,000 children and young people from South Sudan , the so-called " Lost Boys ". Today, the campers outnumber the local Turkana population in the sparsely populated desert region. About 70% of them come from South Sudan. Ethiopians and Somalis also make up larger proportions, while Eritreans , Burundians , Rwandans , Ugandans and Congolese live in Kakuma .
In 2000, around 3,500 Lost Boys were resettled from Kakuma to the USA. Since the end of the war in South Sudan in 2005, the repatriation of South Sudanese from Kakuma has begun.
Visits by foreign heads of state
During his time as Federal President of Switzerland , Alain Berset visited the refugee camp in July 2018. The Directorate for Development and Cooperation had Swisscontact implement a vocational training project there.
In February 2020, the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Kakuma during his trip to Kenya.
Web links
- Refugees International via Kakuma, 2003 ( Memento from April 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Ekuru Aukot: “It Is Better to Be a Refugee Than a Turkana in Kakuma2: Revisiting the Relationship between Hosts and Refugees in Kenya” (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ State visit to the Republic of Kenya. In: bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President, accessed on March 5, 2020 .