内容摘要：A woman drips candle wax on Valentin Solis as part of his penance, as pilgrims make their way, some crawling, to the San Felipe Church in Portobelo, Panama, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the iconic Black Christ statue that was found on the shore in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A woman drips candle wax on Valentin Solis as part of his penance, as pilgrims make their way, some crawling, to the San Felipe Church in Portobelo, Panama, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, during a festival celebrating the iconic Black Christ statue that was found on the shore in 1658. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A Somali woman and child wait to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A Somali woman and child wait to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A Somali woman breastfeeds her child at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A Somali woman breastfeeds her child at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)The two men had always lived in their southern community of Ufurow, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) away, and had never moved from it until now.

Somalia is now said to have the world’s fastest urbanization rate as so many people like them emerge from rural areas and cluster around potential sources of aid.“They know before we do that their way of life is over,” U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths has said.

Here outside the southern town of Dollow, Issack and Hassan waited patiently in the late afternoon light, a wall of children and slender mothers behind them. Long strings of prayer beads were around their necks, a battered mobile phone in a pocket.

On the edge of the rapidly growing camp for displaced people, an official was drawing lines in the dust. He was marking squares, a hopscotch of future homes for the waiting families. What they would build on the spaces little bigger than a king-sized bed, and where they would find the materials, would be their problem.“We are the real owners of Istanbul; these streets are ours,” says Ergin Dogan. “If there is a fire, we are the first to run to help. We love this city, but it doesn’t love us back.”

Veysel Dogan, right, and his two sons Ergin, left, and Murtaza load a lorry with discarded cartons at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Veysel Dogan, right, and his two sons Ergin, left, and Murtaza load a lorry with discarded cartons at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Veysel Dogan smokes a cigarette as he and his sons load a lorry with discarded cartons at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Veysel Dogan smokes a cigarette as he and his sons load a lorry with discarded cartons at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)