Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, 20 years on – in pictures
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The world's biggest refugee complex, set up at the start of Somalia's civil war in 1991, now also counts Sudanese and Ethiopians among its population of more than 300,000
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An aerial view of the Dadaab refugee complex. The Ifo, Dagahaley and Hagadera camps in Dadaab, north-eastern Kenya, form the largest refugee complex in the world
Photograph: UNEP
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Ifo camp, seen from above in May 1992
Photograph: T Bolstad/UNHCR
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Ifo camp in May 1992Photograph: P Moumtzis/UNHCR
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A woman from Somalia at Ifo camp. May 1992
Photograph: T. Bølstad/UNHCR
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Recently arrived refugees from Liboi, along the Kenya-Somalia border, begin building their new houses, June 1994Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
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Women work on an agricultural project in Ifo camp, watering young trees, June 1994 Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
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By March 1996, Ifo camp is a small-city, home to refugees mainly from Somalia but also from Sudan and EthiopiaPhotograph: I Galassi/UNHCR
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Women collect firewood in Hagadera camp, July 1998Photograph: E Eyster/UNHCR
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Somali refugees gather at a water point in Hagadera camp, July 1999Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
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Somali refugees work on a seedling nursery run by GTZ, the German agency for international co-operation, July 1999Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
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A women's group makes baskets to sell in Hagadera camp, July 1999Photograph: B Press/UNHCR
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Children gather in Hagadera camp, October 2006Photograph: Siegfried Modola/IRIN
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In 2006, torrential rain and floods displaced around 13,000 refugees from the Dadaab camps Photograph: AFP
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UN relief workers retrieve supplies dropped from a US military plane to the Dadaab refugee complex after the floods, December 2006
Photograph: Pool/Reuters
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Somali refugees drive a herd of goats in Ifo camp, January 2007
Photograph: Radu Sigheti/Reuters
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Newly arrived Somali refugees wait to be registered by the UNHCR, August 2008
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Somali children attend an outdoor class in Dagahaley camp, June 2009
Photograph: FINBARR O'REILLY/Reuters
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A man helps to distribute flour at a UN food distribution centre in Dadaab, August 2009
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Sharke Mohamed, 18, has his leg treated at a Médecins Sans Frontières medical station in Dadaab, August 2009
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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A security officer stands before hundreds of people waiting to move to a less-crowded camp in Dadaab, August 2009. The Dadaab camps hold more than three times as many people as they were designed to support
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Europe
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A woman displays her UN food assistance card in Dadaab, August 2009
Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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A new group of refugees arrives from the Kenya-Somalia border, February 2011
Photograph: Hamza Mohamed
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Residents of the Dadaab camps collect clothes to donate to newly arrived refugees, most of whom have left all their possessions behind in Somalia, February 2011
Photograph: Hamza Mohamed
