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Ugandan peacekeeping troops in Somalia mark ‘Tarehe Sita’ day
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Ugandan peacekeeping troops in Somalia mark ‘Tarehe Sita’ day
Ugash Adan Abdulahi shook a jerry can. Inside rattled a few grains of sorghum -- the only food to last his family another 10 days in Kenya's overwhelmed Dadaab refugee camp.
Every day hundreds of desperate people arrive at Dadaab seeking food and shelter.
Between 400 and 500 people arrive at Dadaab every day, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, mostly driven from Somalia by drought and insecurity. With some 350,000 people living in these tent cities, all three of the settlements - Dagahaley, Ifo and Hagadera - are well beyond capacity