Kenyan border that are already the largest and oldest in the world, sheltering more than 270,000 Somali refugees




Somali refugees storm a football pitch in celebration after a local refugee team scored a goal in the final seconds of a match between refugee teams at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 5, 2009.The United Nations said on Friday that 96,000 Somalis had fled their homes during a month of battles between Islamist rebels and the government in Mogadishu. They have swelled the more than 1 million internal refugees in Somalia, which aid agencies say has one of the world's worst -- and most neglected -- humanitarian crises. A two-year insurgency, the latest manifestation of 19 years of conflict in the Horn of Africa nation, has killed around 18,000 civilians, and unknown numbers of fighters

A Somali refugee woman holds her infant as she waits for supplemental food distribution at a clinic run by the medical charity Medcins Sans Frontieres at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 7, 2009.


A newly arrived Somali refugee waits in line to be registered by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009



Newly arrived Somali refugees wait in line to be registered by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009

Newly arrived Somali refugees wait to be registered by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009

A Somali refugee holds her newborn infant in the maternity ward in a health clinic at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009



A Somali mother waits with her child for supplemental food distribution at a clinic run by the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres at Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009. Weeks of intense fighting in Somalia has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes, swelling camps on the Kenyan border that are already the largest and oldest in the world, sheltering more than 270,000 Somali refugees

A veiled Somali refugee sits in front of a mud shelter at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009

A Somali woman prepares food in a shelter at Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009

Somali refugee Sahro Asad Hassan, 19, holds her newborn infant Anzal Mohammed in the maternity ward in a health clinic at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009.

Somali children attend a makeshift outdoor classroom at Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009.

Somali children attend a makeshift outdoor classroom at Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009

A malnourished Somali child lies in a therapeutic feeding center at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009

Somali refugee Maryan Abdullahi sits in the maternity ward in a health clinic at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009. Weeks of intense fighting in Somalia has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes, swelling camps on the Kenyan border that are already the largest and oldest in the world, sheltering more than 270,000 Somali refugees

A Somali boy writes writes verses from the Koran on a board at a makeshift outdoor classroom at Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009. Weeks of intense fighting in Somalia has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes, swelling camps on the Kenyan border that are already the largest and oldest in the world, sheltering more than 270,000 Somali refugees