Somali refugees face hunger in Kenya camps

Lines of hungry refugees waiting to be registered formed outside of one of the main refugee camps in the Dadaab area on Tuesday morning. The processing of refugees waiting to be registered appeared to have slowed as Ramadan got underway.While young children, the sick and elderly as well as pregnant women are not expected to fast over the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, many said they would fast even though they were already hungry.We have already been fasting before Ramadan because of the famine, we have no food. I am fasting I will just continue fasting, said Somali refugee Ambiya Hassanow.Aid agency workers at the Ifo refugee camp said they were seeing close to 2,000 new arrivals daily at camps in the Dadaab area. The United Nations had put the number at around 1,000 at the Kenyan refugee camps in July. Somali refugees said famine in parts of Somalia meant more were on the way.