IT entrepreneurs find surprise success in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps

Nairobi (Keydmedia) - Two decades on, Dadaab is home to many resourceful refugees who feel unable to return to Somalia
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Mohammed Bashir Sheik was four when he arrived at Dadaab refugee camp with his mother and sister 18 years ago. The family, along with tens of thousands of others, had fled the civil war in Somalia, looking for refuge over the border in north-east Kenya. His mother died when he was 14 and he grew up in the care of his sister.

"Survival in the camp was particularly tough after my mother died. The ration of 6kg of maize, 300g of oil and 400g of beans to last each person for 15 days was hardly enough," he recalls.

So far, Sheik

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