Topic: Kenya: Aid workers kidnapped in Daabab!

Aid workers kidnapped from Kenya's Dadaab camp near Somalia


Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya is home to more than 450,000 Somalis

Four foreign aid workers and a Kenyan national have been kidnapped from a refugee camp in Kenya close to the border with Somalia, police say.

A driver was also killed in the ambush on a convoy by gunmen in Dadaab camp, home to more than 450,000 Somalis.

The foreign workers were from Norway, Canada, Pakistan and the Philippines, the region's deputy police chief Philip Ndolo told Reuters news agency.

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a go no area for foreigners....i advice them to reconsider going to Kenya

You are correct, nimeisikia hiyo kitu umesema. But they will never never succeed with their diabolic movement. It won't even take 10 years.

Polisi nchini Kenya wamesema kuwa wafanyikazi sita washirika la kutoa misaada kwa wakimbizi wametekwa nyara katika kambi ya wakimbizi ya Ifo ilioko kaskazini mashariki mwa nchi hiyo.

Waliotekwa ni wafanyikazi wa shirika la Norwegian Refugee Council, ambalo linatoa huduma kwa wakimbizi kutoka Somalia wanaoishi kwenye kambi hiyo.

Msemaji wa Shirika hilo, amedhibitisha tukio hilo na kuongeza kuwa katibu mkuu Elizabeth Rasmussen alikuwemo kwenye msafara uliovamiwa lakini amenusurika.

Hata hivyo shirika hilo halijatoa taarifa zaidi kuhusu tukio hilo na watu waliotekwa.

Mkuu wa wilaya ya Lagdera ambako kambi hiyo ipo Robert Kimanthi amesema waliotekwa ni raia wa Canada, Norway, Mfilipino, Mpakistani na Wakenya wawili. Wote ni wanaume.

Kulingana na polisi watu waliokuwa wamejihami kwa bunduki walishambulia msafara wa magari katika kambi hiyo ambayo inatoa makaazi kwa zaidi ya wakimbizi nusu milioni kutoka Somalia.

Mtu mmoja aliuawa kwenye tukio hilo. Polisi wanashuku kuwa wapiganaji wa kiisalamu wa Al shaabab walihusika na shambulio hilo.

Visa vya mashambulio ya kigaidi vimeongezeka katika maeneo ya kaskazini mwa Kenya, baada ya wanajeshi wake kuingia nchini Somalia mwaka jana kupambana na wanamgambo wa al shabaab. Katika miezi ya hivi karibuni, wafanyakazi kadhaa wa mashirika ya kutoa misaada wametekwa nyara katika kambi hiyo ya Daadab. Wawili kati yao ni wanawake wawili raia wa uhispania ambao walitekwa nyara mwezi Oktoba mwaka uliopita.

Source: BBC