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31 Jan 05:45am

Filed under: Dadaab, Refugees, South Sudan, Unhcr, World Food Programme

Last week I visited the largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab in northern Kenya, home to almost 450,000 Somali refugees.

Odd man out

I also visited the Yida refugee camp in northern South Sudan which has 60,000 Sudanese inhabitants fleeing from the conflict in South Kordofan, Sudan.

My expectations of an African refugee camp were shaped by the images on our TV screens of skeletal starvation and desperately malnourished kids.

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Pisces says:

06:04pm | 31/01/13

@simonfromlakemba How many are here to be contributing members of society? Try taking a walk through some northern suburbs and see all the men sitting with their ilk in cafes and/or escorting their wives to do shopping (god forbid their women go out unchaperoned!). I ‘feel’ that they are here… Read more »
Samson says:

05:15pm | 31/01/13

@ Simon - why can’t they be found guilty of an offence that carries a jail term? If they’ve done the crime? Would you not just cancel their visa?? Read more »

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