

They sit in their living room, a small 10-square-meter area about the size of a car parking space with a walnut-colored PVC floor and an unpleasant blue light filtered through cigarette smoke. He and his family were just able to escape "Islamic State" (IS) terrorists and have been living in Mam Rashan since December 2015. Today, he's meeting up with Mezafar Berges Matto, a friendly Yazidi man in his late 30s who seems much older. German aid worker Jan Jessen (left) is a regular visitor to the region Image: Killian Bayer/Kristina Schlick/DW Jan Jessen, a German journalist and development aid worker, is a regular visitor to the area in northern Iraq. The refugee camp in the Nineveh district of the autonomous Kurdistan region is like a small town.

To the left is a sea of corrugated metal containers and electric poles - beyond that, nothing. A wide gravel road extends into the distance and blurs into the horizon.
