East Africa food crisis: report from Dadaab refugee complex

• Author: Oxfam
• Copyright: Oxfam
• Date: 17 August 2011

Oxfam Humanitarian Press Officer Anna Ridout reports on the ongoing East Africa food crisis from the Dadaab refugee complex, in northeastern Kenya. The complex is the biggest in the world, currently sheltering more than 400,000 people (Aug 2011) -- most of them fleeing conflict and drought in Somalia.

More than 9,000 refugees continue to arrive every week, many walking for days or even weeks, as drought worsens across the region. Oxfam is on the ground in Dadaab, laying pipelines and trucking in clean water for residents of the refugee complex.

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