Nobel winner Malala visits world’s largest refugee camp

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Yousafzai has been in contact with a group of young girls from the Dadaab camp via Skype. But after completing primary school a few years later, her family returned to Somalia where she could not find a school to enroll in and her father chose to marry her to a middle-aged man. The global community has urged caution and warned against forceful evictions.

Many refugees have lived most if not all of their lives in Dadaab, which has been open for 25 years.

Kenya has been plagued by numerous attacks from the Somali extremist group al-Shabab that have killed scores of people since 2011, when Kenya deployed troops to Somalia against the militants.

Yousafzai celebrated her birthday previous year by opening a girls’ school for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

“Today in Dadaab I met Rahma Hussein Noor, a 19-year-old who has struggled more than most of us can imagine just to go to school”, Malala writes.

“I am here to speak for my unheard sisters of Somalia striving for education every day”, she said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab has vowed to continue attacking Kenya. He said that Malala is the pride and symbol of Pakistan and she has come forward as a messenger of peace and knowledge in the world. Rahma enrolled in school for the first time ever at the refugee camp when she was 13. The laureate, who was shot by militants in 2012, has been an outspoken advocate for girls’ education.

Pakistani education campaigner and youngest victor of the Nobel Peace Prize, Malala Yousafzai, has turned 19 today (Tuesday). This includes the preparation of derivative works of, or the incorporation of such content into other works.