Dadaab Refugee Camp

WATCH: Kristin Davis Cries While Sharing Stories From Africa

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Video, Oxfam, Kristin Davis, Kenya, East Africa Famine, Famine, Kristin Davis Oxfam Ambassador, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Impact News

As she continues to settle into her role as an Oxfam ambassador, Kristin Davis has taken a keen interest in empowering women in need, CNN reports. ...

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Waiting for Dadaab (PHOTOS)

Arthur Nazaryan | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Africa, Famine, Somalia, Refugee, Kenya, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Slidefreestyle, Dadaab, Exposure, Somalia Refugees, World News
Arthur Nazaryan

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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
Ming Holden

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 Survival Girls: Kenya, Refugee Youth, and Safe Space

Ming Holden | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Youth, Trauma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Women's Issues, International Development, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Youth Empowerment, Community Development, Gender, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Great Globe Foundation, Women's Empowerment, Hilary Clinton, Safe Space, Psychosocial-Relief, Refugees, Kenya, Ronan Farrow, Impact News
Ming Holden

Strife-ridden societies aren't furnished with peaceful town squares. I'm talking about my girls and me sitting in the dirty corner of a church, creating a temporary space from scratch with our presence.

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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
Bono

2011-10-04-Screenshot20111004at12.07.01AM.jpgThe 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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Africa's Grapes Of Wrath

Kari Stoever | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Horn of Africa Drought, Somalia Famine, Famine in Somalia, Dadaab Famine, Horn of Africa Famine, Famine in Africa, Dadaab Camp, Dadaab Refugee Camp, World News
Kari Stoever

Similar to the 1930s across the American Great Plain states, prolonged drought in southern Somalia has turned the region into a dust-bowl, causing widespread famine and a mass exodus into neighboring countries in search of for food, water, shelter and hope.

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

Josh Lozman | Posted 10.29.2011

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Josh Lozman

2011-08-29-dkjfkd.pngDespite heroic efforts by aid workers, the living conditions in Kenya's Camp Dadaab are unacceptable. Long-term solutions are needed.

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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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Ambassador Tony Hall

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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Dr. Bill Frist

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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When Food Is Not Enough to Stop Famine

Erin Patrick | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: East Africa, Famine, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Somalia, Kenya, East Africa Famine, Impact News
Erin Patrick

When children are starving, the most urgent need is to feed them. It seems simple, but is it really? This is the question humanitarian workers confront on a daily basis at the world's largest refugee complex, in Dadaab, Kenya.

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Al Jazeera: The World's Largest Refugee Camp Houses Mainly Women And Children, But Where Are The Men?

Al Jazeera | Azad Essa | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Somalia Drought, Refugees, Somalia Refugees @Depressing, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya, World News

The wind hollers, whipping up dust that scratches at our faces. As I fumble with my notebook, a thorny branch of the drought-resistant Mathenge tree h...

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Dadaab, the Somali Struggle to Flee Violence

Tariq Tarey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugees in Dadaab, Somali Poverty, Somali Violence, Somali Humanitarian Crisis, Somali Refugees, Somali Diaspora, Violence in Somalia, Somali People Somali Civil War, Dadaab Refugee Camp, World News
Tariq Tarey

Dadaab demonstrates the inadequacy of the refugee regime to live up to the ideals of its own international treaties. Currently, 300,000 people live in Dadaab and many have been there for nearly 20 years.

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