18/11/2016
Returning Somali Refugees Find it Hard to Build New Lives
Ibrahim Hassan, 49, was delighted to have a home after living more than 20 years#160;in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. #160; ?All my life I never slept in a house of my own, he said. Half of my life I spent in a refugee camp dependent on aid agencies. February this year, I bought a [piece of] land and built it.? #160; But Hassan?s dream was short-lived. This past October, a year after he returned to Somalia from the largest refugee camp in the world, he was told to tear#160;his home down. #160; ?I was told to move out of my house. The reason authorities gave me was that the land is a disputed one and the person who sold it to me was not the genuine...
