02/05/2015
Kenya loses patience over Dadaab refugee camp housing displaced Somalis
Events that led Dagane Kenedid to Kenya from his village in Somalia in the early 1990s mark the most gruelling period of his life. Armed men swept into his village with murderous intent, killing four of his brothers and making off with all of their livestock. For Mr Kenedid, worse was to come. He gathered his family ? his wife and two small children ? and joined his surviving siblings on the walk to safety in Kenya hundreds of miles away. They were on the road for 37 days, scrabbling for what little food there was, but it was not enough. In despair he watched his three-year-old son starve to death. When the shattered family arrived at Dadaab refugee camp, they knew safety for the first time...
