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Life on the edge for Dadaab’s refugees
Life in the world’s biggest refugee camp, at Dadaab, Kenya, means subsisting on the bare essentials. But people still try to live as normally as they can, writes the World Food Programme’s Steve Ryan.
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How do you become the best distance runner in the world?
Moving to Oregon, sleeping in an air-thinning tent, and training come what may. Sports Reporter Keme Nzerem meets Mo Farah on his quest for distance running world domination.
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Armed guards to protect British ships from pirates
The prime minister announces armed guards are to be deployed on British ships for the first time to protect them from pirates.
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Three months of famine in southern Somalia
The death of one of the world’s worst tyrants on Thursday made it impossible for me to report that we are now three months on since the UN declared a famine in southern Somalia, writes Jonathan Rugman.
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Mobile phone services help refugees find families
Refugees who have become separated from family during war and disasters can now use a mobile phone web service to try to find them again. Around 200,000 refugees are expected to use the site.
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Aid workers kidnapped at gunpoint from refugee camp
Two women working for the aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres at the world’s biggest refugee camp, Dadaab, are kidnapped by gunmen.
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Somali gunmen escape with French hostage
Somali kidnappers who seized an elderly French hostage have escaped into Somalia after a gun battle with Kenyan security forces.
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Kidnap victim Judith Tebbutt 'taken to Somalia'
Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman blogs on the killing of David Tebbutt and the kidnapping of his wife Judith in Kenya
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Kidnap of Briton by militants ‘most worrying scenario’
Somali militants could be responsible for killing a British man in Kenya and kidnapping his wife, a Chatham House expert tells Channel 4 News.
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Somalia famine spreads threatening 750,000
The UN reveals famine has spread to three quarters of Somalia, threatening 750,000 people with imminent starvation. Islamic Relief in the UK tells Channel 4 News the situation is now “catastrophic”.
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Just 27 per cent of drought aid money going to Somalia
The Disasters Emergency Committee tells Channel 4 News that just over a quarter of money it has raised towards the Horn of Africa Appeal is going to Somalia, the epicentre of the drought crisis.
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Somalia's families forced to choose between children
Jonathan Rugman blogs from Somalia on the heart-turning decisions some families are having to make as famine threatens the lives of millions of people in east Africa.
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Somalia drought ‘definitely getting worse’
More than one million children have been displaced by the disaster in east Africa, and one charity tells Channel 4 News the situation in Somalia is “definitely getting worse”.
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The long walk to Dadaab for Somalia’s refugees
The British Somali journalist Jamal Osman experiences for himself just a little of the arduous trek being endured by thousands of starving Somalis making their way to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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Famine's awkward truths
And here’s an awkward truth: the more help international aid agencies pour into these refugee camps, the more permanent they will become. A dependency culture is being created here, for want of any internal solution to Somalia’s problems.