Somalia’s displacement camp ‘gatekeepers’ – ‘parasites’ or aid partners?

[Deeq A.]

For the past eight months, home to Dahabo Abdullahi has been a hut made of sticks and plastic sheeting in a “privatised” camp in the Somali capital. Like many of the more than half a million displaced people living in and around Mogadishu, she pays a “gatekeeper” part of her food ration every month as an entry fee and for the provision of basic services.

Source: Hiiraan Online