A country where is known as a beautiful peninsular with beautiful ocean and should be one of the great holiday place to go, but the truth is proved from the picture here we can know it is not beautiful like what we are imagine. This is a story that tell to the world the life of somalia people..
"I had 40 camels, 30 goats and 60 cattle," he told me proudly as we walked the red-dirt path back to his temporary hut on the outskirts of the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab. Not anymore. When the drought hit, his livestock died of starvation, one by one. Eventually, he had no way to make a living for his large family. (Ali has two wives with 11 children between them).
With no other alternative, Ali gathered his own family and some of his siblings and their families. The entire clan set out from Dinsor, Somalia, on foot. It took them 20 days and 20 nights of walking to reach the camp.
Ali says they were lucky none of the women were hurt or brutalized along the journey. There have been many reports of rape and sexual violence against the women who have been forced to flee their homes in Somali to reach refugee camps in northern Kenya.
But he did lose a nephew who died of hunger as they made the long trek.
Home now is a tent he built out of branches, covered in plastic bags. When he invited me inside, I had to duck and watch out for thorns. The entire hut was about 8 feet in diameter – the size of a two-person backpacking tent. Ali is living there with one of his wives and six children.
As we walked in, I jumped back. A 2-year-old was barely visible, asleep on the ground. I nearly stepped on her. She was tinier than a 2-year-old should be.
I asked Ali how long he thinks he can live like this. He shrugged. "This is the situation we’re in," he said. "We have to live here."
"We have no choice," he said. And then he rubbed his thumb and fingers together, the universal sign for money. No money.
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