An interesting article. Some SCID students have worked here and also written their MSc dissertation on Dadaab, and it would be very interesting to read their views…
When Halima Abdi fled the civil war in Somalia with her young daughter, she hoped her stay across the border in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp would be short-lived.
Security, Conflict and International Development (SCID) 
Furthering this blog post, I highly recommend the following discussion led by Andrew Marr but featuring Ben Rawlance who wrote “City of Thorns” and spent four years in Dadaab. All in all I found this a worthy and enjoyable discussion:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ybg7h
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