Malala Yousafzai Spends Her 19th Birthday in World’s Largest Refugee Camp

Malala Yousafza, speaks to refugees in the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, on July 12, 2016.

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai spent her 19th birthday on Tuesday in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, the world’s largest, aiming to draw attention to the global migrant crisis and the plight of those living in the Kenyan camp.

“I am here to speak for my unheard sisters of Somalia striving for education every day,” Yousafzai told the Associated Press. The laureate, who was shot by militants in 2012, has been an outspoken advocate for girls’ education. She has since spent her birthdays in regions where girls’ educations are neglected: in 2015, she opened a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon, and she campaigned for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria the year before.

According to her spokesman Taylor Royle, Yousafzai has been in contact with a group of girls living in Dadaab refugee camp since last year and planned to meet them during her visit, reports the AP.
The planned 2017 closure of Dadaab refugee camp, which was announced in May by the Kenyan government, risks uprooting more than 300,000 refugees, who are mostly Somali and face the prospect of returning to a country still overwhelmed by conflict.

Dadaab refugee camp is home to more than 300,000 refugees

[TIME]

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Zika-Linked Cases of Microcephaly Rise in Brazil

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Australia Has Rescued 37 People Stranded on an Icebreaker Ship in Antarctica

Australia sent a mission to rescue 37 people who were stranded aboard an Australian icebreaking ship that ran aground after a severe blizzard Wednesday. Australian officials said on Friday that they were launching a rescue mission to retrieve the members of the icebreaker’s expedition and bring them to Mawson Station — an Australian research facility on Antarctica — reports the BBC. Thirty-one crew members will stay onboard the 4,311-ton vessel, the Aurora Australis, and work to refloat it. All 68 passengers and crew are safe, authorities said, and the vessel itself incurred only a small breach in its hull. The ship ran aground Wednesday morning when a massive blizzard untethered it from its mooring lines. [ BBC ]

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