Solar-power Internet downloads opportunities for African refugees

A file photo of Unicef health workers at a refugee camp in Bhanine village, in the northern Akkar province, Lebanon. Pairing renewable energy and Internet nodes is opening up education and job opportunities in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp. — AP

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: When Innocent Tshilombo arrived in Kenya’s remote Kakuma refugee camp in 2009 after fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he spent the first years recovering and looking, without much success, for something to do with his life.

“Refugees are not allowed to work and take employment. They don’t have freedom of movement to do what they want, where they want,” the 34-year-old said in an interview.