UN and partners boost food aid to Somali refugees amid alarming malnutrition

2 September 2011 – The United Nations refugee agency has opened a sixth camp for Ivorians who fled the post-election violence in their country and have been living with host communities in neighbouring Liberia. “The aim is to improve protection and assistance for the refugees, as they are currently scattered across 300 different remote locations along the border,” Adrian Edwards, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told reporters in Geneva. The new camp which o .... [More]