Somali Refugees

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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Japan Helps Somalia's Students Get Access To Education

Posted 08.04.2011

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In Somalia, a distant benefactor has provided education to a makeshift town of displaced refugees. Contributors in Japan have coordinated with UNICE...

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Somali Refugees: Rapists Stalk Women In Camps

AP | MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED | Posted 05.25.2011

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GALKAYO, Somalia — The three masked gunmen burst into Asha Muse Ali's tent at night and grabbed every item of value they could find: $85 in cash...

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Struggling to Make a Living in Ethiopia: Surviving in the Informal Economy

Jina Krause-Vilmar | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Ethiopia, some 44,000 Somali refugees are scattered among four refugee camps, living in the arid heat on parched land. Most of these refugees survive on one meal a day and are dependent on humanitarian aid.

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Dadaab, the Somali Struggle to Flee Violence

Tariq Tarey | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Kenya Recruits Somali Refugees To Fight Islamists Back Home In Somalia

Posted 05.25.2011

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by Letta Tayler and Chris Albin-Lackey, Human Rights Watch Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya--For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mort...

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Somalia: UN Says It's Time To Return To Mogadishu

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.25.2011

By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 (IPS) - Somalia, a perpetually violence-prone country described as one of the world's failed states, may go t...

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Somali Insurgency Forces Over 200,000 To Flee Mogadishu Since May

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fighting between Islamist militias and government-aligned forces has caused 204,000 people to flee Mogadishu since May and forced the closure of some ...

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Somalia Refugees Flee Mogadishu By The Thousands

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thousands of people have fled the Somali capital Mogadishu amid escalating fighting between government forces and opposition fighters....

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Somali Refugees Number 100,000 In Past Month: UN

allAfrica | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since fighting broke out last month between Government forces and armed opposition groups, almost 100,000 people have been driven from their homes in ...

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Somalia Fighting Escalates In Capital Mogadishu

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of government soldiers attacked Islamic insurgents across the Somali capital amid heavy artillery shelling Friday,...

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Looking Beyond Somalia's Pirates And Into Kenya's Refugee Camps (SLIDESHOW)

International Rescue Committee/HuffPost Contributor | Joanne Offer | Posted 05.25.2011

I'm going to hazard a guess. If I mention Somalia, you'll think of warlords and pirates. Because that's what the media headlines have highlighted. Wha...

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Somali Refugees, Fleeing War, Face Danger, Abuse In Camps

GlobalPost | Tristan McConnell | Posted 05.25.2011

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- "Life in Somalia is not life, it is full of bullets; there is no life in Somalia," said 70-year-old Maryam. Before she fled to Ken...

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Somali Refugees Fear Further Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa

Mail and Guardian | PERCY MABANDU | Posted 05.25.2011

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Refugee camps were established in May last year to house thousands of foreign nationals displaced in an outbreak of xenophobic attacks that claimed u...

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The US Role in Somalia's Calamity

Chris Albin-Lackey | Posted 05.25.2011

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US policy not only has displayed a callous disregard for the basic human rights of Somalis, but it has failed on its own terms, breeding the very extremism it sought to eliminate.

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