Where is dadaab refugee camp in kenya

Wrong language? Change it here DW. COM has chosen English as your language setting. COM in 30 languages. Deutsche Welle. Audiotrainer Deutschtrainer Die Bienenretter. News Kenya to close 2 refugee camps next year Kenya says it is working with the UN to find solutions for some , refugees' displacement as it shuts down the Dadaab and Kakuma camps.

The Dadaab refugee camp is is one of the world's largest. Refugees in Kenyan camp face despair thirty years on. Watch Live. Breaking News Close. Related articles. From the same country. In the newer parts, families live under tents in patches of desert, battered by winds that whip up the occasional violent dust storm.

Refugees here aren't allowed to build permanent structures. Many live in tents or structures made from old tarps. The walls of Abdula's house are made of wooden poles stripped from thorn trees, the roof a vaulted tin sheet. Sixteen-month-old Semeya runs up to her father as Abdula enters the enclosure outside their home. As Abdula arrives, his wife Sahra, who was born in Dadaab, places a crimson hijab on Semeya, as is customary when a family receives guests.

Abdula's mother Hawo rests against the wall of their hut. Abdula and his family fled Somalia's brutal civil war for Dadaab in The year-old has been living here since childhood and knows little else. His closest foray into the non-refugee world has been brief stops at the town that sits next to the camp.

But he needs written permission to go further. Sitting cross-legged on a woven mat outside his home, Abdula says Dadaab is like a prison. Click and drag to change your perspective.

This interactive feature was created by stitching a series of aerial photographs together. Dadaab rose from modest beginnings, set up in as a temporary shelter for 90, refugees fleeing the civil war engulfing neighboring Somalia.

Almost a quarter of a century later it is a complex of five distinct camps, and it is still growing. After years of conflict, famine, and floods, Somalis continue to stream over the border into the camp.

Europe's migrant crisis may have grabbed all the headlines this summer, but two-thirds of the world's roughly 20 million refugees live in protracted situations like the one here in Dadaab.

Nearly 60 million people around the world were displaced by war, conflict or persecution by the end of -- the highest figure since records began. An average of 42, people are forced from their homes each day, according to the U.

Camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, overflowing with the millions of Syrians who have fled the country's devastating war, are quickly becoming the new Dadaabs. This past summer, Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan marked its third anniversary. Carved out in an equally harsh desert environment, it is now home to more than 80, Syrians, making it the largest camp in the Middle East.

Yet it is still just a quarter of the population living in Dadaab. Dadaab is unforgiving at the best of times. And if the situation here seems grim now, it was even worse four years ago. During the height of Somalia's famine, tens of thousands of refugees made the journey by bus, donkey cart and foot to escape hunger and the Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab. A quarter of a million people died during the famine.

Each block is head by a male and a female block leader. The male and female block leaders elect a male and a female section leader who will be in charge of the section. All the section leaders will in turn elect the overall chairman and the chairlady of the camp. They are also involved in the conflict resolution and management at block level.

Due to civil war, merciless killings, explosions, drought and extreme scarcity of food in Somalia, the number of people seeking refugee from Somalia in Dadaab increased to over half a million people. The new population is residing in generally poorer conditions in terms of food, healthcare and education.

Livelihoods are severely limited within the camps. The main forms of livelihoods are relief, remittances and some small livestock. Some refugees have established small-scale businesses to cater for their daily needs.

In addition to this, the Kenyan Government instituted a policy that limits movement of refugees outside the Camps. This means refugees have limited access to labour markets or to alternative sources of income, making them highly dependent on food donation from UNHCR and other aid agencies.

However, animosity between Dadaab refugees and local Kenyans has also developed, particularly over the management of scarce resources. Access to water, land use for business, and firewood is a specific source of collision between the two communities, with the ever-growing refugee population utilising the goods in ways that are not sustainable.