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At Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, an increasing number of people are being forced to return to Somalia even as the war they fled there continues, because of debt. The global aid system is failing to deliver for refugees, and as noted here previously, this has forced organisations including the World Food Programme to slash the services – including food – they can give to people living in refugee camps. At Dadaab, the result was that many people had to get food from Kenyan busin

A brief note in two parts, as an illustration of how the media works. Yesterday, Daily Sabah, reported that Turkey had responded to Saturday's (14 October) bombing of Somali capital Mogadishu, which killed 512 people and injured another 316, 'faster' than 'the West'. It is certainly true that Turkey responded extremely quickly to the bombing, and that many ‘Western’ states did not. It is also true that this swift response has been noticed – and noted – by Somalian citizens, i