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A visit to East Africa and the Dadaab refugee camp

Posted by: Brendan Gormley, Posted on: 3 August 2011 - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Humanitarian

As you fly over this arid, dry and dusty land the vast expanse of tented shelters sprawling across the horizon immediately captures your attention. There are almost 400,000 people - a number equivalent to the entire population of Bristol - …

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Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp is a haunting place

Posted by: Kristin Davis, Posted on: 19 July 2011 - Categories: Development Debates, Humanitarian, Kenya

I was unprepared for what I saw at the Dadaab camp in Kenya. Totally unprepared for the utter sense of panic in the people I met there. These were the newcomers, people who could not fit into the largest refugee …

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When the aid provided leaves people divided

Posted by: Colum Wilson, Posted on: 3 February 2009 - Categories: Africa, Humanitarian

A few rapidly snatched possessions, some sketchy shelters made from branches and grass and barefoot children being herded out of sight by fearful parents. You have seen it before on TV: another population fleeing from a vicious low-level war. But …

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Pots, pans and protests: the fight for natural resources

Posted by: Colum Wilson, Posted on: 28 January 2009 - Categories: Africa, Humanitarian

Last Sunday morning, N'djamena city rang with the sound of thousands of clashing pots and pans. It was a few minutes of noisy defiance in Chad's capital, an indoor expression of rage. Indoors, because when women demonstrated in the streets …

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The challenges of humanitarian work in Chad

Posted by: Colum Wilson, Posted on: 26 January 2009 - Categories: Africa, Humanitarian

The first time I visited Chad in February last year, I picked the wrong weekend. It was the weekend that the rebels reached N’djamena. The day had started normally enough – breakfast of dry pastries in the terrace restaurant overlooking …

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