University opens a new campus, which provides training for Somalis live for years in the largest refugee camp in the world
Sheikh Mohamed Bashir has a new reason to hope. 25 years Somali who came to live in the world's largest camp for refugees in Dadaab, Kenya, when he was only four years old, intends to apply for a place at a university that will open the next year near the settlement.
Kenyatta University is building a campus in Dadaab, a sprawling complex that houses the camps housing 470,000 refugees, mainly Somalis who have crossed the border near to escape cycles of war and drought in their country.
Aa> Courses on topics such as project management, marketing, finance and peace and conflict will be offered to refugees and the local population in this remote town in northern Kenya, 90 kilometers (55 mi) border with Somalia. The site was launched last week and the first students are expected to enroll in January. Sheikh Bashir, father of three children who works for a website that offers news on the refugee camp, should be among them. "I want to go to Kenyatta University and Mass Communications of the study. 'm Going up, "he said by phone from Dadaab. "I am a journalist and I've never seen one training [session] or workshop. Want to continue my career," said Sheikh Bashir, who is Kismayo, soldiers the peace of the Somali port city African Union recently seized by Islamist militants Al-Shabaab. Dominik Bartsch, COO Refugee UN agency, said the agency will seek to establish partnerships with universities and donors to provide scholarships to refugees. "No tertiary education for refugees around the world," he said. "A site has been made available and now CINEP to proceed and put everything in its place." Bartsch said the university has already spent two thirds of their homes to refugees, and the rest for the inhabitants. "The fact that it is halfway between the two communities [] is good news," he said. Refugees can use their skills to help not only the Kenyan society, but in time to help reconstruction of their own country, on his return, he added. Shaykh Bashir, some refugees now try to continue their studies through correspondence courses at the Universities of Nairobi, and a certain type of training is also available, but the refugees are likely to want "the education on their doorstep. "" We had over 5,000 graduates from school last year and have nowhere to go for higher education, "he said.
The presence of a large number of Somali refugees in Kenya - Nairobi and Dadaab - has been controversial, with representatives of the Kenyan government repeatedly calling on international NGOs to repatriate security zones Somali in their homeland. These calls have increased in recent months peacekeepers of the African Union, including Kenyan troops have begun to reap victories against al-Shabab, whose fighters impose a severe form of Sharia law in the areas of Somalia under their control. The strength of peacekeeping, known as AMISOM, led by al-Shabaab from Mogadishu, the capital, last year and seized a number of towns in the south.
Aid agencies have warned that it is too early to talk about refugees return home, especially by the conflict. Many Somalis in Dadaab has spent his entire life there, raising their children in the camps. This month, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or Doctors Without Borders) said: "While Somalia is plagued by armed conflict, called for the repatriation of the refugees are very premature security conditions on the ground can not adequate protection or safe delivery. humanitarian aid. "
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