PHOTOS: East African refugees
Ailing Batola Khalil Mohamed, 55, of Somalia is wheeled into the refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Many refugees of late are fleeing drought, not war. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
A woman rests at the refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Experts say climate change is quietly driving Africa’s displacement crisis to new heights. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Newly arrived Somalis wait to be registered by workers of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees at the camp in Dadaab, Kenya. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Somali Abukar Ahmed Keniar, 12, is held by uncle Noor Hassan Noor at the Dadaab camp in Kenya. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
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A child stands outside his home at the massive Dadaab camp. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
Just outside the Dadaab camp in Kenya, Ijabo Arab, with daughter Deka, 2, lives with her husband and five children in a hut. Until recently, the family raised goats and cows. But the herd died, partly because of the drought and partly because of the influx of displaced people at Dadaab. (Edmund Sanders / Los Angeles Times)
Adam Abdi Ibrahim, with his son, left his Somali grazing land for the Dadaab camp in Kenya after four years of drought and the death of his last 20 animals. (Edmund Sanders / Los Angeles Times)
Children walk in the Dadaab camp, which was built for 90,000 people and now houses three times as many. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)