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Light transport in two-dimensional disordered metamaterials made of high-permittivity rods is studied theoretically. Distinct regimes of transport are identified and explained in terms of coupled electric and magnetic dipolar resonances. The dielectric optical features of the structure are found to be weakly perturbed by structural disorder and light propagation at frequencies close to the magnetic dipole resonance is shown to rely on hybrid, necklace-like, states.