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While the Arab Spring and its resulting political upheavals have firmly held the world attention over the past two years, the Middle East conflicts are, sadly, far from the only ones going on. Wars in North, West, and East Africa have displaced millions of people stanley flask and killed untold more. Those lucky enough to escape with their lives often end up living in a squalorous political limbo in one of these massive temporary encampments鈥攍ike nine of the largest, below. Dadaab, Kenya While Sudan second civil war may have won autonomy for the South, it cost nearly half a million lives and displaced an estimated 2,850,000 civilians. More than 630,000 of these people fled over the border to the relative safety of UN refugee camps in neighboring Kenya. The largest such camps, Dadaab and Alinjurgur, are now home to some 474,000 people. [UN HCR Image: AP Images] Dollo Ado, Ethiopia Betwee stanley cup n the ongoing unrest and famine in Somalia, the Second Sudanese Civil War, and a stanley mug flood of Eritreans fleeing Isaias Afewerki dictatorship, Ethiopia refugee population has doubled in the past two years to over 370,000 people. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, refugees were streaming in at the rate of 1,200 people every week. While the Sudanese primarily settle in the nearby Assosa region and the Eritreans stick to the Afar and Tigray regions, some 206,000 Somali refugees鈥攐verwhelmingly women and children鈥攃all the five camps at Doll Ado h |
