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Blast In Kenya's Largest Refugee Camp

AP | TOM ODULA | Posted 01.05.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya — A blast went off Saturday along a road in the world's largest refugee camp in eastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, but n...

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When War Stops, the Impact on the Environment Lives On

Erin Patrick | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Girls, Women, Firewood, Darfur, War, Environment, Humanitarian Crisis, Dadaab, Green News

One of war's consequences -- and sometimes its cause -- is the destruction of natural resources.

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Waiting for Dadaab (PHOTOS)

Arthur Nazaryan | Posted 12.30.2011

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The Real Haunted House

Ming Holden | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Refugees, Horn of Africa, Dadaab, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Impact News

Depending on how much support a refugee has received, and how consistent their surroundings are in the non-home place they find themselves, they can go from trauma victim to trauma survivor.

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The F Word: Famine is the Real Obscenity

Bono | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Hunger, Famine in Somalia, Somalia Famine, East Africa Famine, Famine, Famine in Africa, Dadaab, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Africa, Video, Impact News

The food crisis in the Horn of Africa is nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe, but it is getting less attention than the latest Hollywood break-ups and make-ups.

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Turkana: Looking Into the Face of Starvation

Don Golden | Posted 11.06.2011

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There are no words to capture death by starvation but I bear witness to the fact: the young and old of Turkana are starving to death.

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From Dadaab: Renewed Urgency for Long-Term Solutions Are Needed

Josh Lozman | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Kenya, Africa, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Dadaab, Impact News

Despite heroic efforts by aid workers, the living conditions in Kenya's Camp Dadaab are unacceptable. Long-term solutions are needed.

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Lives in the Balance: No Time to Waste in the Horn of Africa

Samuel Witten | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Somalia Famine, United Nations, Horn of Africa Famine, Horn of Africa, Somalia Drought, Somalia, Refugees, Dadaab, Impact News

This is the worst drought in eastern Africa in decades. The United States recently announced additional funding for this emergency. But much more is required to avert greater catastrophe.

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Why Is America Cutting Emergency Food Aid in the Middle of a Famine?

Ambassador Tony Hall | Posted 10.10.2011

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When I first visited Ethiopia at the height of the 1984 famine, I watched as twenty-four people died of starvation in less than fifteen minutes, right in front of my eyes.

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Inside Dadaab Refugee Complex: What Is Working, What is Not

Dr. Bill Frist | Posted 10.09.2011

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We heard stories from motherswho had lost their husbands. Families who journeyed for weeks to arrive malnourished and in need of medical assistance. And parents who had heartbreaking stories of losing children in the flight from famine in Somalia.

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"Your Son Is Not Sick. He Just Needs to Eat."

Louis Belanger | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Dadaab, Oxfam, Famine, Humanitarian Aid, Somalia, Kenya, Food Aid, Nairobi, World News

A famine? How did we get there? How did we let the situation deteriorate so that people are actually dying of hunger?

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SLIDESHOW: Dadaab Camp In Kenya At More Than Four Times Capacity

Posted 09.24.2011

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11:32am EDT By Catherine Hornby and Deepa Babington ROME (Reuters) - Emergency food centers in drought-stricken eastern Africa are overwhelmed by t...

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Death and Desperation in Dadaab

Justin Forsyth | Posted 09.15.2011

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Yesterday I spent the day in Dadaab refugee camp, a camp in Kenya near the Somalia border. A camp which has swelled to the size of Bristol. I was both inspired and heart broken by what I saw and heard.

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Drought in Horn of Africa

Louis Belanger | Posted 09.10.2011

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What is unfolding in Eastern Africa is the worst food crisis to hit the region in decades and Oxfam is concerned that large numbers of lives could soon be lost.

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Somalian Children Die En Route To World's Largest Refugee Camp

AP/The Huffington Post | MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED | Posted 09.10.2011

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DADAAB, Kenya -- Faduma Sakow Abdullahi and her five children tried to escape starvation in Somalia by journeying to a Kenyan refugee camp. Only one d...

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Voices from Dadaab: the Daily Struggle to Cook a Meal

Erin Patrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humanitarian Aid, Women's Refugee Commission, Firewood, Refugee Women, Kenya, Refugees, Dadaab, Impact News

This summer I traveled to the Dadaab region in Kenya, where three refugee camps -- among the largest in the world -- host nearly 300,000 refugees.

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Somali Refugees in Dadaab Need More Support

Michel Gabaudan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Dadaab refugee camp in Northeastern Kenya is over 20 years old and has received successive waves of refugees, reflecting the political turmoil and...

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Climate Change Displacing Thousands

LA Times | Edmund Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Sub Saharan Africa, Africa, Melting Glaciers, Somalia, Water, Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, Ice Pack, Sea Levels, Kenya, Dadaab, Green News

Africa is already home to one-third of the 42 million people worldwide uprooted by ethnic slaughter, despots and war. But experts say climate change i...

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