Dadaab

A Somali boy tries to drink from a cup as he waits in line with his mother at a camp in Kenya's sprawling Dadaab refugee complex.

Camera crews have been thrown out of a hospital in the Dadaab refugee camp, in Kenya, in an effort to preserve the dignity of the patients.

Dobley is often the last stop for displaced Somalis travelling to the sprawling refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya.

The new site, known as Kambioos, is close to the Hagadera camp, one of Dadaab's three refugee camps.

Aid workers say the empty camp, known as Ifo Two, is close to another one, Dadaab.

The U. N. refugee agency's head of the Dadaab office, Richard Acland, says times have drastically changed.

The sun sets over the Ifo extension refugee campin Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 31, 2011.

A flood of refugees from Somalia, particularly to the Dadaab camp, has begun to pose a risk for Kenya.

The refugees are coming, but there is nowhere to put them except for the Dadaab refugee camps.

The kidnapping came just three weeks after another aid worker, a driver for the group CARE, was kidnapped from Dadaab.

After registration, newly arrived Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps are medically screened and vaccinated.

Despite the fact that we have already moved 9, 570 refugees, the camp population in Dadaab remains virtually unchanged.

VIDEO: UNICEF reports on the recovery of 3 year old Aden, a severely malnourished child in a Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya.

The agency has been asking the Kenyan government to allocate more land for the refugees to ease the pressure on Dadaab.

When Dadaab opened two decades ago, a family of five lived on a plot of land that was about the same area as a small house.

Many of the world's development ministers have made the trek to Dadaab, in part to boost the profile of their ministries.

Ephraim Tan is a UNHCR Registration officer in Dadaab refugee camp.

So are 350, 000 refugees in the disastrously overcrowded Dadaab camp near the border with Somalia.

Somalis flee to the refugee camps of dadaab, kenya.

With more than 400, 000 Somalis now in Dadaab, Kenya, the opening of a new refugee camp there is welcome news.

Just 50 miles from the Somali border, many see the Dadaab Refugee camp as a last resort.

Mr Odinga made the announcement during a visit to the nearby Dadaab camp, which is struggling to cope with 380, 000 people.

UNHCR says about 1500 Somali refugees arrive at Dadaab every day. Many are suffering from severe malnutrition and dehydration.

Dadaab camp is bursting at the seams, and every day more than 1, 000 Somalis stream in.

one of the thousands of Somali refugees who arrive at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya each week;