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Hidden sex work, HIV risk in Dadaab

DADAAB, 16 September 2011 (PlusNews) - At Ifo trading centre, a short distance from northeastern Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex, Hawa*, a teenage girl, sits in a dark room on an old jerry can holding a small bunch of fresh khat, a mild stimulant, ostensibly for sale. full report

KENYA-SOMALIA: Refugees at risk of sexual violence

DADAAB, 8 September 2011 (PlusNews) - Amina*, 27, left her home town of Kismayo in south-central Somalia at the end of May for northern Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. The journey took her and her four children 14 days and nearly broke them, but between the famine and the conflict, she was afraid that staying in Somalia could mean death. full report

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