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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th December, 2016) The Government is pumping more than half a billion pounds of aid into war-torn Somalia – despite accepting there [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (7th February, 2016) City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World&#8217;s Largest Refugee Camp (Portobello) Guled was a slight boy, orphaned in his teens [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in the Daily Mail (December 9th, 2013) From the moment Comic Relief was launched in a Sudanese refugee camp on Christmas Day 28 years ago, the country’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Independent (September 24th, 2013) For two years, Kenyans have been  bracing themselves for the barbarism we have just witnessed in Nairobi. Ever since their army [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 26th, 2013) It is hard to think of many more blessed spots on Earth than the Gambella region of Ethiopia, with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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