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U.S. Air Force soldiers wave to people on the ground after their aircraft successfully completed an airdrop in Dadaab
12 Dec 2006
Source: Reuters

 
U.S. Air Force soldiers wave to people on the ground after their aircraft successfully completed an airdrop December 11, 2006, in Kenya's north eastern town of Dadaab. Six air-drops have been made by the a US Air Force C-130 cargo plane from the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, delivering UNHCR relief supplies to thousands of refugees cut-off for a month by flood waters and impassable roads in the Dadaab camps in northern Kenya. Picture taken on December 11, 2006.
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