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Amanda Sperber is a foreign correspondent based in East Africa.
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Somalis around the world have been devastated by the suicide attack in the capital, Mogadishu, that killed more than 300 people and wounded hundreds more. In Kenya’s Eastleigh, known as ‘Little Mogadishu,’ Somalis are organizing blood drives and comforting the wounded.
The second part of our report on Yemeni refugees in Somaliland looks at how they have become part of the breakaway region’s struggle for international recognition, leaving them in awkward limbo.
Yemenis fleeing conflict are taking overcrowded livestock boats across the Gulf of Aden to Somaliland – an unrecognized country. Such is the magnitude of violence in one of the oldest centers of civilization in the Middle East.
In part two of our story, the Blue Nile’s refugees, who vastly outnumber the host community in Maban, find themselves in a precarious situation, with meager sources of sustenance for both the refugees and hosts and a highly militarized environment.
Following the influx of refugees from Sudan’s Blue Nile into Maban, South Sudan, the new arrivals and their host communities are struggling to live together amid strained political relations and an extreme dearth of resources.
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