International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Fleeing the Drought

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Fatuma and her family stand outside a building at Dadaab refugee camp
Refugees sit on the ground under trees outside one of Dadaab's reception centers
An elderly woman, Habiba, at the Dadaabd refugee camp reception center
Beniye Issa holds her baby daughter
A severly malnourished baby is held in a woman's arms
Photo: Sophia Jones-Mwangi/IRC

 At least 1,200 refugees are arriving at Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya every day from drought-stricken Somalia. They are exhausted and hungry.  Most have lost everything they owned and many have sold whatever they had left to pay for the bus or car fare.  The IRC's Sophia Jones-Mwangi tells their stories.