Aid to Africa dries up

Somalis living in the world’s largest refugee camp risk being recruited by armed groups and bandits as children grow up without education in increasingly desperate conditions, eight aid agencies said on Thursday.

Kenya’s overcrowded Dadaab camp, whose population swelled to 465,000 as a result of last year’s famine in war-torn Somalia, has been hit by a wave of bomb blasts and grenade attacks.

The government blames the violence on al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia and sympathisers inside Kenya. The Kenyan police have arrested Somali refugees in connection with the incidents, alleging that they are using Dadaab to store explosive materials and plan attacks.