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Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, 20 years on – in pictures

Dadaab refugee camp: Ifo, Dagahaley, and Hagadera refugee camps are located in Dadaab  , Kenya
An aerial view of the Dadaab refugee complex. The Ifo, Dagahaley and Hagadera camps in Dadaab, north-eastern Kenya, form the largest refugee complex in the world Photograph: UNEP
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
Ifo camp, seen from above in May 1992 Photograph: T Bolstad/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
Ifo camp in May 1992
Photograph: P Moumtzis/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
A woman from Somalia at Ifo camp. May 1992 Photograph: T. Bølstad/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
Recently arrived refugees from Liboi, along the Kenya-Somalia border, begin building their new houses, June 1994
Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
Women work on an agricultural project in Ifo camp, watering young trees, June 1994
Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
By March 1996, Ifo camp is a small-city, home to refugees mainly from Somalia but also from Sudan and Ethiopia
Photograph: I Galassi/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
Women collect firewood in Hagadera camp, July 1998
Photograph: E Eyster/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
Somali refugees gather at a water point in Hagadera camp, July 1999
Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
Somali refugees work on a seedling nursery run by GTZ, the German agency for international co-operation, July 1999
Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: 20th anniversary, Kenya
A women's group makes baskets to sell in Hagadera camp, July 1999
Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
Dadaab refugee camp: Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps In Neighboring Kenya
Children gather in Hagadera camp, October 2006
Photograph: Siegfried Modola/IRIN
Dadaab refugee camp: Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps In Neighboring Kenya
In 2006, torrential rain and floods displaced around 13,000 refugees from the Dadaab camps
Photograph: AFP
Dadaab refugee camp: Kenya Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps
UN relief workers retrieve supplies dropped from a US military plane to the Dadaab refugee complex after the floods, December 2006 Photograph: Pool/Reuters
Dadaab refugee camp: Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps In Neighboring Kenya
Somali refugees drive a herd of goats in Ifo camp, January 2007 Photograph: Radu Sigheti/Reuters
Dadaab refugee camp: Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps In Neighboring Kenya
Newly arrived Somali refugees wait to be registered by the UNHCR, August 2008 Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Dadaab refugee camp: Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps In Neighboring Kenya
Somali children attend an outdoor class in Dagahaley camp, June 2009 Photograph: FINBARR O'REILLY/Reuters
Dadaab refugee camp: Kenya Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps In Neighboring
A man helps to distribute flour at a UN food distribution centre in Dadaab, August 2009 Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Dadaab refugee camp: Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps In Neighboring Kenya
Sharke Mohamed, 18, has his leg treated at a Médecins Sans Frontières medical station in Dadaab, August 2009 Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Dadaab refugee camp: Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps In Neighboring Kenya
A security officer stands before hundreds of people waiting to move to a less-crowded camp in Dadaab, August 2009. The Dadaab camps hold more than three times as many people as they were designed to support Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Europe
Dadaab refugee camp: Somali Refugees Live Desperate Existence In Camps In Neighboring Kenya
A woman displays her UN food assistance card in Dadaab, August 2009 Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Dadaab refugee camp: blog by Hamza Mohamed
A new group of refugees arrives from the Kenya-Somalia border, February 2011 Photograph: Hamza Mohamed
Dadaab refugee camp: blog by Hamza Mohamed
Residents of the Dadaab camps collect clothes to donate to newly arrived refugees, most of whom have left all their possessions behind in Somalia, February 2011 Photograph: Hamza Mohamed
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