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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10193
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/humanitarian aid

Commission provides €15 million to bring relief to the vast Somali refugee camps at Dadaab in Kenya

Brussels, 02/08/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has decided to send €156 million-worth of emergency humanitarian aid to the Somali nationals fleeing war in their country and taking refuge in the world's biggest refugee camps in Dadaab in Kenya.

The funding decision was taken on Monday 2 August 2010. The money will be mobilised by ECHO (the Commission's humanitarian aid department) and will help the most vulnerable by paying for food aid, healthcare, drinking water, access...