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Climate refugees

Halima fled Somalia to a refugee camp in Kenya after years of drought killed her livestock. A single mother of seven children, she felt that she and her family had to leave to survive when there was no more food or water.

Halima and her children are one of several families currently living at the Dadaab refugee camp, and they aren’t the only ones there because of climate change.

“We suffered from four years of drought. We used to cultivate our fields but everything [was] destroyed and because of

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