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Dadaab: The City You Cannot Leave

Posted on Monday, 8 February, 2016Monday, 21 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Dadaab: The City You Cannot Leave

The world’s largest refugee complex, first set up in 1992, is located in eastern Kenya, about 100km from the Kenyan-Somalian border, and it’s home to over 331,500, 95% are Somali refugees, broken down into 77,500 households, as of December 2015. It actually consists of 5 refugee camps sprawled over Dadaab Town: Hagadera (103,000), Dagahaley (83,200), Ifo (76,300), Ifo 2 (49,300), and Kambioos (19,700). 80% of residents are women and children, who are particularly vulnerable to the risk of violence within the camp; as a result a department called Vulnerable Women and Children (VWC) to tackle the issues had been set up. Refugees typically live in tents, made of plastic sheeting, distributed by UNHCR. It is managed by the UNHCR, with other organizations involved in different vital areas; the major ones being CARE, World Food Programme, Medecins Sans Frontieres, German Technical Cooperation, and the Red Cross, to name just a few.

Read Article Here:

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/feb/01/dadaab-somalia-home-cannot-leave-refugees

Dadaab Stories Here:

http://www.dadaabstories.org/

Arp 188 and the Tadpole's Tail.
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing: Faus Márquez (AAE). Distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for this disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. It is 420 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Dragon (Draco), with its eye-catching tail of about 280 thousand light-years long, featuring massive, bright blue star clusters. It is theorised that a more compact intruder galaxy crossed in front of Arp 188 - from right to left in this view - and was slung around behind the Tadpole by their gravitational attraction, with tidal forces drawing out the spiral galaxy's stars, gas, and dust forming the spectacular tail. The intruder galaxy, 300,000 light-years behind the Tadpole, is seen through foreground spiral arms at the upper right.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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