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Some Refugees Returning Home To Help Rebuild Somalia (NPR)

Broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition Sunday - July 3, 2016

Ibrahim Mohamed's baby boy is almost 4 months old, but Ibrahim and his wife, Amina, still haven't agreed on his name. "She said, 'My baby son will be Muntasir,'" Ibrahim says. He prefers Abdelrahman. "Still the competition is going!"

But Ibrahim thinks he'll lose this competition because he hasn't been around. Ibrahim and Amina are Somali, but they've been living in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya since the early 1990s. (Amina was born here.) The newlyweds were expecting their first child when Ibrahim got what many refugees here dream of: A job. Only not in Kenya.

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Some Refugees Returning Home To Help Rebuild Somalia (NPR)

Broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition Sunday - July 3, 2016

Ibrahim Mohamed's baby boy is almost 4 months old, but Ibrahim and his wife, Amina, still haven't agreed on his name. "She said, 'My baby son will be Muntasir,'" Ibrahim says. He prefers Abdelrahman. "Still the competition is going!"

But Ibrahim thinks he'll lose this competition because he hasn't been around. Ibrahim and Amina are Somali, but they've been living in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya since the early 1990s. (Amina was born here.) The newlyweds were expecting their first child when Ibrahim got what many refugees here dream of: A job. Only not in Kenya.

Listen to or read the full story.

 

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