Monday, 21 September 2015

World Largest Refugee Camp.

Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp, where the United Nations says 350,302 people live, although the population is more likely half a million.
Next year the camp, set up as emergency shelter from Somalia’s civil war, will pass a grim milestone — 25 years in existence.
Dadaab attracts little attention, unless a famine or terrorist attack in Kenya jolts us into awareness.
 
The camp grew quickly as Somalia’s crisis worsened. Although the refugees remain connected to the outside world through cellphones and spotty internet service, they are trapped, forbidden from travelling anywhere except back home. Here, a woman talks on a cellphone at a distribution centre, where refugees come every 15 days to get food rations.
 

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