Within minutes of arriving back in Somaliland, returnees are reassembling the tukuls - dome-shaped shelters made of tree trunks and branches - they brought back from exile in Ethiopia. Entrepreneurial ...

Many of Dadaab's refugees still live in tukuls made of grass and twigs. "I have been living in a tukul since I came here 12 years ago, exposed to insects and other animals," he says. "Now with this ...

A photograph released by the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) on 28 May 2011 shows a man walking away with a looted bed while businesses and homesteads locally known as `tukuls` burn in the ...

Tukuls are usually very close to each other, a consequence of the lack of site planning when the camps were erected in the mid-1990s.

A Local NGO TESFA which is assisting remote rural communities to set up rustic holiday tukuls in Ethiopia's rugged highlands, run by local villagers and visited by Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, is to ...

LAST summer I was amazed to see open-sided tukuls in the middle of Wensleydale. Tukuls were the thatched huts we often stayed in when working in Southern Sudan. Many of us living in and around ...