600,000 'forced out' by Kenya violence

The UN’s humanitarian chief John Holmes said today that up to 600,000 people have been forced from their homes in Kenya during weeks of violence that has killed 1,000 people.

“There are something like 300,000 people displaced in camps … (and) beyond those 300,000 there are probably just as many who are not in camps who have gone back to their homelands … or are sheltering with friends and neighbours somewhere else,” Mr Humes said.