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Dadaab, Kenya

Somalis overwhelm camp: Thousands of Somalis continued to flee famine this week, only to be raped, beaten, or robbed before they could reach overcrowded camps in Kenya. The Dadaab camp, built for 90,000 people, is now the world’s largest, with 400,000 crammed into it and thousands more arriving every day. Police there said that authorities don’t have the resources to patrol the Somali border, so criminal gangs are free to attack the refugees. Some women told of attackers who’d forced their brothers and other relatives to rape them; men who refused were killed. Others said their children died of dehydration after attackers robbed them of all their food and water. “It is a human tragedy. I don’t even have a word to describe it,” said Wilson Kisiero of CARE International.

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