Refugees shelter in the shadows, away from the piercing sunlight when the sun is high.

The leader of the camp, the 'chairperson', Koos Mohammmed. ''I have personal experience of dangerouse explosives'', she said, ''next to my house, I was burning rubish. Suddenly there was a big explosi...

Hundreds of people sleeping rough in downtown Boroma, having crossed the border to escape the conflict in Ethiopia.

Hundreds of people sleeping rough in downtown Boroma, having crossed the border to escape the conflict in Ethiopia.

There is a large water point about 10 kilometres from Buroa where herds of goats, sheep and camels wait for a turn at the water trough. There are thousands of animals. Camel herders sing loudly and at...

Raho (left) is the leader of the women's group in the camp and is the MAG focal point regarding weapons safety and EORE.

A refugees from the conflict with Boko Haram, Diche Ibrahim (30), with her one-year-old twins, Hassan and Husseina, who recently failed the camp clinic's nutrition test and have been put on a treatmen...

Hinba Elmi with her camels. Three years ago authorities gathered large thorn barriers people had placed as land boundaries and collected them into a big pile and burnt them. No one knew there was an e...

Hawa and Hussain are from one of around eighty families that have recently travelled to this area with their goats, sheep and camels. ''We are in despair'', she said, ''when the drought came, we trav...

Families struggle to receive limited handouts of bread in the centre of Boroma. The families follow a daily routine moving from the bakery in the morning to tea shops and market corners hoping for sus...

Miuco Watle family, from Amhara, who have crossed the border to escape the conflict in Ethiopia.

Hawa and Hussain are from one of around eighty families that have recently travelled to this area with their goats, sheep and camels. ''We are in despair'', she said, ''when the drought came, we trav...

Nuur Hassan, ''I left my family living in terrible conditions, I had to save the animals or we would all die. I don't know if I will see them again.''

Haniid and Bakaa building a shelter outside Buroa. People are arriving every day to escape the worst effects of the drought.

A Fulani woman in an IDP camp. Thousands of Fulani (semi-nomadic herders of the Sahel) have been displaced by fighting with the Dogon people and have fled to refugee camps in Bamako.