Refugee Camps

“Famine May Have Ended, But For Us Hunger Has Not”

By Abdurrahman Warsameh
One-year-old Miriam Jama is a symbol of life in Somalia after the famine. Born just as the United Nations World Food Programme declared famine in this Horn of Africa nation a year ago on Jul. 20, Miriam has known no other life than the one in the Badbaado refugee camp, situated 10 kilometres outside the country’s capital, Mogadishu.

U.N. Warns of Impending Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia

By Brian Ngugi
The United Nations has called for sustained aid efforts in Somalia to prevent the war-torn country from experiencing another humanitarian crisis as more than three million people remain in need of urgent aid.

In One Haitian Camp, Life Offers Hardship and Little Hope

By Susan Robens-Brannon
In the remote, dusty and barren area of northern Port-au-Prince, Cannon Camp houses nearly 6,000 displaced Haitians in tiny and cramped spaces. Nestled among the smattering of tents is the home of a 50-something-year-old mother of 12.


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