Angelina Jolie visits Somali :more photo at IRC hospital

Jolie toured the maternity unit and “stabilization center,” where children suffering from malnutrition were being treated. Outside the hospital in Hagadera, she posed for pictures with members of the IRC staff, who said they were grateful for her visit and hoped it would encourage other advocates to focus on Dadaab.


In her role as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, actress Angelina Jolie visited an IRC hospital in a refugee camp complex in Dadaab, Kenya, on September 12. The U.N. said she was there to call attention to the situation of its 285,000 refugees, most of whom fled war-torn Somalia and are now crowded into what the U.N. says is the world’s largest refugee settlement.

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