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At the transit centre, refugees wait in line for hot food.
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Having just crossed the border, families are given wristbands at the reception centre to collect food rations.
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At the transit centre, refugees wait in line for hot food.
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Make-shift shelters at the transit centre. UNHCR tarpaulins are in short supply as families having been waiting up to a month to be transferred to the camps.
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Barey Ibrahim Mohamed is seven months pregnant. She came to the camp with her five children, leaving her husband in Somalia to care for his blind father.
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11 year-old Madey Abdille Abdiow Madey spent four days and nights travelling through Somalia under cover of dark to reach safety in Ethiopia.
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Women and children wait to be registered at the transit centre.
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Hawa Kerow Aliow, 70, is blind. With no family, she has only an elderly friend Habiba to care for her.
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Habiba Mural Hassan is eighty years old. She has no family in any of the camps in Ethiopia.
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A young boy plays with a tyre outside of a traditional Somali home constructed in the transit centre.
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A young boy plays with a tyre outside of a traditional Somali home constructed in the transit centre.
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Somali children in a make-shift tent.
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Many refugees travelled with their belongings by donkey cart hundreds of kilometres to Ethiopia.
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Midow Hassan Noor sleeps at night on the ground in the transit centre, where 14,000 refugees wait to be transported to the camps.
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Children at Kobe refugee camp.
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At Kobe camp, families are housed in UNHCR tents.
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15 year-old Brian speaks good English, having been to school in Kenya before he left Somalia.
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Most of the Somalis arriving in Ethiopia are rural farmers. They were forced to flee after harvests failed for the third year in a row.
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Girls learn to read from wooden slates at a community school in Bokolmanyo.
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Children at Bokolmanyo's community school.
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Malkadida and Kobe refugee camps sprawl in the distance.
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A girl waits at the health centre.
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A young mother waits with her son at the health centre.
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Refugees wait for treatment at the health centre.
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A baby awaits treatment for an eye and ear infection.
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Kobe camp.
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Kobe camp.
