Posted at bbc.co.uk on July 8, 2011:

The UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has launched an emergency appeal to help the more than 10 million people affected by severe drought in the Horn of Africa. The BBC’s Ben Brown reports from the Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya, where more than 1,000 people arrive each day seeking help.

Dadaab refugee camp now sprawls out over 50 km sq with a population approaching half a million people.

I feel like nobody even knows that this is happening. Read the story.