NAIROBI, Kenya, May 3 (UNHCR) –A top-level UNHCR delegation visiting Somali refugee and IDP camps has seen for itself evidence of the growing humanitarian tragedy facing many thousands of uprooted people. The delegation, led by UNHCR's Deputy High Commissioner, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, examined increasingly overcrowded and under resourced situations in sprawling camps in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya and inside Somalia during a two-week visit that has just ended.
Twenty years of violence and anarchy have forced at least two million Somali citizens to flee for their lives. Intense fighting in south-central Somalia is now compelling more people to flee their homes than from any other place in the world. Traumatized and scared, they shelter in safer parts of the country or, if they can make it, escape to the neighboring states of Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Yemen.
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