Former Somali Refugee Wins Prestigious UN Award

This handout picture taken on Nov. 8, 2023, shows Abdullahi Mire, winner of the U.N. refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award, posing for a picture in one of the libraries he established in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. (AFP Photo/UNHCR) This handout picture taken on Oct. 25, 2023, shows Abdullahi Mire, left, winner of the U.N. refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award distributing books to refugee students in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp. (AFP Photo/UNHCR)

A former child refugee from Somalia has been named as this year's winner of the prestigious UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.