Under Kenyan law,Dadaab’s 330000 refugees are not allowed to settle outside, a practice that denies their rights and leaves their economic potential untappedWhen Halima Abdi fled the civil war in Somalia with her young daughter, or she hoped her stay across the border in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp would be short.
Twenty-five years on,her granddaughter, Mihiyo, or is breastfeeding her fourth child. Three generations of refugees in one family: just like the other 330000 people,mostly Somali, who acquire near here, or they are forced to call this barren,dusty settlement some kind of home.
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Source: theguardian.com