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August 16, 2011 - 
ABC Australia
Inside the world's biggest refugee camp
Driving from Kenya's bustling capital, Nairobi, north-east to the world's biggest refugee camp at Dadaab near the Somali border takes more than eight hours.
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August 11, 2011 - 
Ms Magazine Blog
Don’t Skimp on Aid to East Africa–Women Will Pay the Price
This week, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged a total of $122 million to famine relief in East Africa, putting the total U.
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August 11, 2011 - 
Associated Press
A tortured choice in famine: Which child lives?
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her 1-year-old daughter on her back and her 4-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia's drought and famine.
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August 10, 2011 - 
The New York Times
Rachel’s Last Fund-Raiser
Perhaps every generation of geezers since Adam and Eve has whined about young people, and today is no different. Isn’t it clear that in contrast to our glorious selves, kids these days are self-absorbed Facebook junkies just a pixel deep? No, actually that’s wrong at every level.
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August 10, 2011 - 
CNN's AC360
Saving Ahmed from starvation
Dadaab, Kenya (CNN) -- In the middle of a famine, there is a place that houses the sickest survivors of all. Along the border between Somalia and Kenya at the International Rescue Committee hospital it is simply called a stabilization center.
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August 9, 2011 - 
CBS News
80 percent of Somali refugees at camp are female
(CBS News) DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya - The Hagadera neighborhood of Dadaab Camp was first settled by refugees back in 1992, during one of Somalia's endless civil wars.
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August 9, 2011 - 
CBS News
Children of Somalia's famine flood hospital
(CBS News) DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya - U.S. officials are warning that hundreds of thousands of children face death from starvation and thirst. The people at the world's largest refugee camp have survived a journey that has taken weeks or even months.
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August 9, 2011 - 
Associated Press
Kenya burdened by famine refugees; rape attacks up
Marauding gangs and criminals are attacking Somali famine refugees more frequently as they flee across the border to Kenyan camps, but Kenyan police say they don't have enough manpower to stop them.
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