( CNN ) -- Some of the worst fighting to hit Somalia 's capital city in recent months uprooted nearly 34,000 people in less than a week , according to a United Nations report released Monday . A young girl feeds her baby brother at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu , Somalia . Relief workers said the fighting between the Somali government and rebels over Islamic law has left Somali civilians with the choice of facing bloody battles or fleeing to squalid camps . The displaced people have found shelter in already overcrowded camps in and around Mogadishu , while others have fled into neighboring Kenya , according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA ) . OCHA said that an estimated 34,000 people were displaced by the fighting between insurgents and Somalia 's government from May 8-14 . Although Somalia 's border with Kenya is officially closed , an estimated 5,000 displaced Somalis arrive every month in the U.N. refugee camps in the Kenyan border town of Dadaab , according to Doctors Without Borders , known by its French acronym MSF . `` The situation is simply scandalous , '' said Joke Van Peteghem , who heads the MSF mission in Kenya . `` These refugees have risked everything to escape the fighting in Somalia . Now some are telling us they would rather take their chances in Mogadishu than die slowly here . '' One nurse called the refugee camps in Kenya `` public health time bombs . '' `` The refugees , many of whom are already suffering from serious war-related injuries or illnesses , are packed together without the bare minimum to survive , '' said Donna Canali , who worked for MSF at Dagahaley Camp . `` After all these people have endured , how can their most basic needs continue to be so woefully neglected ? '' Nearly a quarter of the more than 90,000 refugees at Dagahaley suffer from acute malnutrition , according to MSF . MSF is calling on the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees , Kenya 's government , and international donors to help alleviate the `` dire living conditions '' at the camps in Kenya which house more than 270,000 Somali refugees . More than 100 people have died in the latest fighting in Somalia , and hundreds more have been wounded in the bloody insurgency , government officials said last week . The violence stems from an interpretation of sharia , or Islamic law . Somalia 's new president , Sheikh Sharif Ahmed , recently approved implementing sharia , but the al-Shabab rebel group wants the country to institute a stricter form . On Sunday , al-Shabab seized control of Jowhar , the president 's hometown about 55 miles ( 88 km ) north of Mogadishu , according to a local journalist . The violence is exacerbating the already precarious humanitarian situation in Somalia , where an estimated 40 percent of the country 's population -- more than 3 million people -- need humanitarian support , according to the U.N . The fighting erupted days after a mortar attack on Somalia 's parliament that killed six people and wounded more than a dozen others on April 25 . The fatalities included a soldier and three children who were killed when the rounds struck a nearby school , a police spokesman said . Members of parliament were meeting when the attack occurred , but none of them was injured , an official said .
Fighting in Somalia uproots 34,000 civilians in a week , report says . The United Nations estimates that more than 10,000 people have been killed since the start of this year by fighting between government forces and Al-Shabaab militants who are trying to topple Somalia's government. More than 100 have died in most recent fighting . Violence stems from an interpretation of sharia , or Islamic law .