Audio By Vocalize Daadab Refugee Camp.[File, Standard] In 1997, I was a young boy in Ifo, one of the refugee camps that make up Dadaab in northeastern Kenya, when the El Niño rains came. When the rains intensified, the fragile roads disappeared beneath water and mud. Dadaab was cut off by road from the rest of Kenya for almost three months, and food, medicine and fuel eventually had to be brought in by air. I do not need a report to remember the airplanes. I remember being a half-naked little boy, barefoot, running dangerously beneath the belly of an aircraft…
Author: By Ahmed Abdidool
Audio By Vocalize Daadab Refugee Camp.[File, Standard] In 1997, I was a young boy in Ifo, one of the refugee camps that make up Dadaab in northeastern Kenya, when the El Niño rains came. When the rains intensified, the fragile roads disappeared beneath water and mud. Dadaab was cut off by road from the rest of Kenya for almost three months, and food, medicine and fuel eventually had to be brought in by air. I do not need a report to remember the airplanes. I remember being a half-naked little boy, barefoot, running dangerously beneath the belly of an aircraft…