As many as 14,000 Somalis have crossed into neighboring Kenya since September, according to United Nations estimates. That brings the total for the year to 34,000, the biggest influx since the early 1990s, when the collapse of Mohammed Siad Barre's dictatorship opened a decade and a half of anarchy that made the Horn of Africa country the world's best-known failed state. | “Last week, a 3-year-old Somali girl in the camps was diagnosed with polio...” |
Last week, a 3-year-old Somali girl in the camps was diagnosed with polio, the first case of the crippling disease in Kenya in more than two decades. The U.N. has appealed for $35 million in emergency aid to handle the influx.