Source: Pulitzer Center
Country: Kenya, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (the), Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Sudan (Republic of)
Published November 10, 2012 Samuel Loewenberg
KAKUMA, Kenya —The Kakuma refugee camp is 60 miles from Sudanese border, in the uppermost reaches of the arid Turkana region of Kenya. It was opened in 1992 to house the 16,000 “lost” girls and boys fleeing the war from Sudan. These days, the overcrowded facility is home to around 100,000 people, driven there by violence not only from Sudan but also Ethiopia, Congo, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi and a handful of other nations.
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