Watch: Somali wins UN award for effort to bring books to refugee children

Abdullahi Mire, the winner of the UN refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award posing for a picture in one of the libraries he established in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. Photo: AFP

A former Somali refugee intent on bringing books and education to his compatriots languishing in sprawling camps in Kenya was recently named the winner of the UN refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award.

Abdullahi Mire, 36, was hailed for championing the right to education by putting 100,000 books in the hands of children in Kenya's crowded Dadaab refugee camps.