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Somali Refugees in Dadaab

The three refugee camps at Dadaab in the semi-desert of northeastern Kenya now make up one of the largest, the oldest and the most-overcrowded refugee sites in the world.  With a total of 62,000 new arrivals from Somalia in 2008 and 7,000 in January alone, they now house just short of a quarter of a million people -- the equivalent of an entire city in the wilderness