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Somali camps unfit for humans
Sep 5 2009, Ofentse

Hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict in Somalia are being forced to live in woeful conditions, the aid agency Oxfam says.

It says overcrowded and badly managed refugee camps in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are “barely fit for...

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