Human Wrongs Watch
By Cathy Wachiaya in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, 22 October 2014 (UNHCR)* – Noah Ilambona has been a fisherman all his life, so the refugee from Burundi felt completely lost when he ended up in the arid reaches of north-west Kenya after fleeing home in 2010 with his wife and first child.
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© UNHCR/C.Wachiaya | Noah and a partner harvest fish from one of their aquaculture ponds in Kakuma.
“I was happy to have found safety. The fighting was terrible back home,” admitted the 30-year-old, who fled to Kakuma Refugee Camp from his village on the banks of Mulembwe River, which feeds into Lake Tanganyika.
But the environment in north-west Kenya was completely different from his lush village and the father of two got a shock on arrival in Kakuma, which is located in a mostly arid region that experiences searing temperatures and very little rainfall.
The locals are pastoralists who live a nomadic lifestyle in constant search of water and pasture for their livestock.
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