Inside Dadaab refugee settlement — in pictures

Recently arrived refugees queue at Dagahaley registration centre to receive cooking tools and their first food rations
Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

A makeshift tent built by new refugees who arrived 16 days ago and had to settle far from the camp as they were chased by the local community who claimed the land was theirs Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

Somali refugees collect wood for cooking fires. It is illegal to chop wood inside the camp, and the refugees are supposed to use only dead wood Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

New arrivals queue at Dagahaley registration centre to receive cooking tools and their first food rations Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

Refugees try to keep clean while queueing at Dagahaley registration centre Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

A Somali mother and her daughter walk through Dagahali camp hand-in-hand Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

Isaac Mohammed, 50, comes from Buale, in lower Juba. He used to be a farmer and a cattle herder, before the drought destroyed his business. He has two wives and nine children. One, three-year-old Mohammed Issa Mohammed, is severely malnourished and is seen here being fed by Isaac at Ifo camp Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

A Somali refugee collects wood to take back to her tent Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

Sarura Aden, 40, comes from Salagle, near the city of Kismayo. She arrived 16 days ago with her husband and six children, and settled on the outskirts of Ifo camp. She lives far from the other tents because she couldn't find any space in the official settlements, after having being threatened by local communities who claimed the land her family was occupying was theirs Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

A Somali woman holds her child at GIZ Hospital inside the refugee camp, where the child is being treated for severe malnutrition Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

Refugees wait patiently at Dagahaley registration centre to receive cooking tools and their first food rations Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

A mother queues for food with her three children at Ifo camp Photograph: Matilde Gattoni

A refugee goes to fetch water in Ifo camp Photograph: Matilde Gattoni