Kenya: Xenophobia Threat to Refugee Protection

8 October 2012

GIVING special treatment to refugees in Africa at the expense of the host communities gives rise to the xenophobia that judges and magistrates said is an impediment to refugee protection.

At the just concluded two-day International Association of Refugee Law Judges - African Chapter in Mombasa, the judges said host communities envied the refugees due to special treatment given to them.

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