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  • UNHCR initiated an innovative pilot project, the IDEAS BOX, in Dollo Ado

    news UNHCR, 18 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )
    In Dollo Ado, UNHCR initiated an innovative pilot project, the IDEAS BOX, a multi-media library, for Somali refugee children and youth. The project is implemented by Save the Children and Libraries without Borders, in coordination with UNHCR Innovations Unit in Geneva. Facilitated by the governmen...
  • The CEO of IKEA Foundation visits the Dollo Ado camps

    news UNHCR, 10 Sep 2015 (8 years ago )
    Ethiopia-15 September 2015 (UNHCR)-The Chief Executive Officer of the IKEA Foundation, Mr. Per Heggenes, last week visited the five Dollo Ado refugee camps as part of a periodic programme review of different projects funded by the IKEA Foundation. Accompanied by UNHCR Representative Clementine Nkwet...
  • Poles pop up in Dollo Ado camps!

    news UNHCR, 10 Sep 2013 (10 years ago )
    UNHCR’s partner AHADA are busy installing 310 solar powered street lights thanks to funding from the IKEA Foundation and ECHO. CEO of the IKEA Foundation, Mr Per Heggenes checked out the lights on a recent visit to the camp. The lights are already reportedly creating a greater sense of safety and co...
  • Somalia: A Famine Crisis One Year On - Lives Saved and Lessons Learned

    news AllAfrica.com, 01 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    Dollo Ado — A year after the onset of the Somalia famine, Aden Yusef Kabey can laugh at the pain he endured. He has regained the body weight he lost over the past year. He can walk, eat and sleep. "I've come back from the dead," says the 22-year-old. "Now I want to have a future and take full adv...
  • Panoramic Photos, Dollo Ado refugee camp

    news http://bavaria360.de, 09 Jul 2012 (11 years ago )
    Photographer Juergen Schrader recently took these panoramic, 360 degree shots in Dollo Ado's Melkadida camp, which is home to approximately 40,000 Somali refugees: http://bavaria360.de/melkadida/melkadida.html Patients line up to avail of German NGO Humedica's medical services in a camp health p...
  • Geldof: G8 leaders not as rich, but must still help Africa

    news ITV, 15 May 2012 (11 years ago )
    After spending the last five days with Bob Geldof, I feel that I know his opinion about everything. His forceful rhetoric - delivered at one hundred miles per an hour and sprinkled with a selection of profanities - is what first helped to make the famine in Ethiopia a global issue during the 1980...
  • Somali refugees in Ethiopias Dollo Ado exceed 150,000 as rains hit camps

    news UNHCR, 27 Apr 2012 (11 years ago )
    Heavy rains have hit Somali refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, damaging tents, flooding roads and affecting aid delivery. This comes as the refugee population in southern Ethiopia swells to more than 150,000. In recent weeks, Dollo Ado in southern Ethiopia has been receiving a weekly average of...
  • Somalia conflict keeps Ethiopia's Dolo Ado refugee camp busy – audio slideshow

    news The Guardian, 12 Apr 2012 (11 years ago )
    Somalia conflict keeps Ethiopia's Dolo Ado refugee camp busy – audio slideshow
  • DHC, IKEA CEO visited Kobe & Bur Amino camps

    news , 14 Feb 2012 (12 years ago )
    As part of a two-day mission to Ethiopia (9-10 Feb.), UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Alexander T. Aleinikoff and the Chief Executive Officer of IKEA Foundation, Mr. Per Heggenes, visited Kobe and Bur Amino camps on 10 February 2012. The two officials appreciated the progress being made to address Ko...
  • Sudanese Refugees Victims of Air Raid

    news Voice of America, 25 Jan 2012 (12 years ago )
    At least one Sudanese refugee was injured and 14 others are missing following an air raid Monday in South Sudan. The U.N. refugee agency says the attack occurred in Upper Nile State where Sudanese refugees have sought refuge from violence back home. Sudanese refugees have been crossing the border...