Kenya: The Stolen Dreams and Shattered Lives of the Refugees At Dadaab Camp

opinion

When one-year-old Ahmed Dimbil arrived at the Dadaab refugee camp from Kismayu with his father in 1991, he had no idea that the camp would be his home throughout his childhood and adolescence.

He is among those Somali refugees who have never experienced life outside the camp. In all the past 25 years, he has only left the camp once, in 2003 when he briefly visited nearby Garissa with some friends. Then the movement of refugees was not as restricted as it is now.

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