The United States said Monday it will give $45 million to help Kenya deal with an increasingly complex refugee crisis in a region long defined by Somalia’s endemic violence, but where war in nearby Yemen is now creating conditions so dire that some people are even fleeing to Somalia.
In Nairobi, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the funding for the U.N. refugee agency’s operations as it struggles to provide for some 600,000 refugees.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman dealt a blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to build a coalition by announcing Monday he is stepping down and that his …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
