ABC News reports from Dadaab camp
Thursday, August 18, 2011
ABC News correspondent Ben Knight reports from Dadaab refugee camp where the population is approaching 400,000, with 1500 newcomers every day.
Night reports that if they’re lucky, the new arrivals will come into contact with people like Regina Muchai, who works for ACT member the Lutheran World Foundation. Muchai, lead manager of the Dagahaley camp, offers calm assistance and compassion to those who queue every morning outside the compound.
Muchai tells ABC News: "I’ve not seen anything like what I’ve seen in the past two months and I’ve spoken to a lot of my colleagues. I don’t think anybody has experienced this before."
See the arresting story, A Place in the Sand, on ABC News.
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- Kenya: digging for water in the midst of drought
- Surviving the drought, and preparing for the next one
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- ABC News reports from Dadaab camp
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- Horn of Africa: more energy and attention needed
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- Ethiopia: setting up camp on hard soil
- Volunteers keep the peace in Dadaab camps
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- Dadaab: “It’s what makes you get up at 5am”
- ACT's emergency response in Somalia and Kenya: a snapshot
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- This famine knocks on everyone's door
- Dadaab: praise for expansion of Kenyan camp
- Kenya and Somalia: a tale of two droughts
- UN declares famine in two Somali states
- Desperation increases in southern Ethiopia
- Women slog for miles seeking last drop of water
- SMS from South Ethiopia: cattle are dead, we’ll be next
- Anguish as Ethiopians run out of options
- Africa drought: pressure on Dadaab extends for miles
- Horn of Africa drought: 10 million could starve
- This is the last of my food