'When war broke out in Somalia, people had to walk. The majority walked to the closest border, Kenya. Many people lost their lives; many women lost their children. We were lucky, my family; we didn't experience qaxay, the need to flee, because we'd left Somalia earlier, in late 1987 or early 1988, before the war We went to Egypt. My mother took my brother and me, and my father followed later.' (Introduction)