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Somalis create largest refugee camp in world
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Friday, June 26, 2009
A Somali woman waits with her son to be registered at a U.N. registration center in Dagahaley refugee camp in Daadab, northern Kenya on Thursday, June 25, 2009. (AP / Malkhadir Muhumed)
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DADAAB, Kenya -- The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world's largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in neighbouring Kenya every day, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
Dadaab, just 80 kilometre from the Somali border, is home to more than 280,000 refugees in an area meant to hold just 90,000.
So far this year, the U.N. refugee agency has registered nearly 38,000 new arrivals, UNHCR spokesman William Spindler said Friday. The vast majority of them are fleeing violence and poverty in Somalia as Islamic insurgents try to topple the government.
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