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"I'll mainly be in Garissa, not Nairobi," she said.
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Josette Sheeran, the executive director of WFP, traveled to eastern Kenya on Saturday to visit the drought-stricken town of Garissa and the world's largest refugee camp, Dadaab.
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The article explained how a camel is being used to deliver books to remote areas near Garissa, Kenya.
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Abdi Kadir Mohammed, 33, a teacher in the town of Garissa, where WFP has set up a food distribution site, said that most of the nomadic community there had lost many animals which are their source of livelihood.
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Since Kenya's invasion, al-Shabaab militants have staged several attacks inside Kenya, including a New Year's Eve grenade attack that killed five people at a nightclub in Garissa, a northern town.
Ethiopia Makes Gains Against Militants in Somalia Solomon Moore 2012
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The article explained how a camel is being used to deliver books to remote areas near Garissa, Kenya.
February 2009 2009
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A Kenyan refugee aid worker described the police operation between the border and Garissa, the provincial capital, as "one big money-making machine."
Human Rights Watch: Kenya: Police Abuse Somali Refugees 2010
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The report documents how police arrest refugees traveling without - and increasingly those with - government-issued "movement passes," extort money from them, and sometimes take them to court in Garissa, where they are fined or sent to prison.
Human Rights Watch: Kenya: Police Abuse Somali Refugees 2010
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The report calls on the UN refugee agency to improve its monitoring and advocacy with the authorities and to make more frequent visits to police stations near the border, the town of Dadaab and Garissa.
Human Rights Watch: Kenya: Police Abuse Somali Refugees 2010
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"Welcome to Kenya" contends that the organized nature of the police's extortion racket and abuses - extending almost 200 kilometers from the border town of Liboi through the town of Dadaab to Garissa - is the direct result of Kenya's three-year-old decision to close the border.
Human Rights Watch: Kenya: Police Abuse Somali Refugees 2010
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