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Inside Dadaab: life in one of the world’s largest refugee camps
What happens to all those forced to abandon their homes and seek safety in the first safe country they get to?
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Life on the edge for Dadaab’s refugees
Life in the world’s biggest refugee camp, at Dadaab, Kenya, means subsisting on the bare essentials. But people still try to live as normally as they can, writes the World Food Programme’s Steve Ryan.
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The long walk to Dadaab for Somalia’s refugees
The British Somali journalist Jamal Osman experiences for himself just a little of the arduous trek being endured by thousands of starving Somalis making their way to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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Somalia’s crisis: trying to reach Trump’s America
Many of the people fleeing famine and political instability in places like Sudan and Somalia end up in refugee camps like Dadaab in Northern Kenya.
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Kenyan troops head into Somalia to hunt kidnap militants
As Kenyan troops enter Somalia to try and root out al-Shabaab fighters suspected of recent kidnappings, an analyst tells Channel 4 News this shows how little power the central Somali government has.
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Aid workers kidnapped at gunpoint from refugee camp
Two women working for the aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres at the world’s biggest refugee camp, Dadaab, are kidnapped by gunmen.
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Just 27 per cent of drought aid money going to Somalia
The Disasters Emergency Committee tells Channel 4 News that just over a quarter of money it has raised towards the Horn of Africa Appeal is going to Somalia, the epicentre of the drought crisis.
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Famine's awkward truths
And here’s an awkward truth: the more help international aid agencies pour into these refugee camps, the more permanent they will become. A dependency culture is being created here, for want of any internal solution to Somalia’s problems.
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Somalia famine: US withholds aid to rebel-held areas
The US gives $28 million in aid but says the money won’t be used in rebel-held famine regions, unless it receives assurances from militants. Channel 4 News talks to the head of the UN in Somalia.
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Government: more money for East Africa drought sufferers
A £52.25m emergency aid package is being put together to help millions of starving people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya hit by Africa’s worst drought in 50 years.
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Africa drought – a tough week to launch an appeal?
Seven days after the DEC launched its East Africa drought appeal Britons have donated £15m but Channel 4 News asks one charity boss whether news events elsewhere have affected donations.
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Fears of ‘death on an epic scale’ in Somalia crisis
An aid worker in Somalia, the centre of the East Africa drought crisis which has hit 12m people, tells Channel 4 News he fears “death on an epic, unimaginable scale” if more is not done.
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UN: Somalia is ‘world’s worst humanitarian disaster’
The head of the United Nation’s refugee agency describes the drought in Somalia as the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world and urges Kenya to build more camps, after touring the region.
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Aid agencies broadcast crisis appeal for drought victims
Leading aid agencies launch an appeal to help 10 million people in the grip of Africa’s worst drought in decades, as Oxfam tells Channel 4 News soaring local food prices are compounding the crisis.
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UN Somalia chief calls for urgent action on drought
The head of the UN in Somalia exclusively tells Channel 4 News he is “not sure the population can survive until the end of the year” unless urgent action is taken, amid the worst drought in 20 years.
