Editorial

Ian Kirk-Smith reflects on the theme of Yearly Meeting Gathering

Refugees queue for clean water in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya | Photo: Helle Kjaersgaard/Save the Children

Refugees queue up for clean water in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya.  The Dadaab camps were originally built to fit 90,000 people. Today the number of refugees living there is around 370,000. In 2010 the three camps in Dadaab received around forty new child refugees a month. Now 800 are coming every day. Drought and famine have arrived again in Africa.

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