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Dadaab

A Somali woman wearing a purple headscarf answers the phone in an office with American flags and East Africa map on the wall.

US-based Somali Bantu face deportation to a country they’ve never known

Migration

In the early 2000s, the United States resettled thousands of Somali Bantu, a group of marginalized tribes who have faced years of discrimination. Nearly 20 years later, many of their adult children are facing the unimaginable: deportation to Somalia. 

Abdullah Hassan, known as Fish, lived at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya for 23 years.

Meet Fish, a resident of the world’s largest refugee camp

Conflict

Life and love for Somalis in Kenyan refugee camp

Thousands flee Somali drought, overwhelm refugee camps

The World

Life in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp

Global Politics
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East Africa’s worst drought in 60 years is only getting worse. The United Nations declared famine earlier this week in a new part of southern Somalia, and warned that as many as 750,000 people could die as the drought goes on. Twelve million people across the region are in need of food aid. The BBC’s  Will […]

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