Kenya: U.S. to Assist Kenya Repatriate Refugees, Says World Understands Situation

The United States plans to assist Kenya and the United Nations in their joint effort to repatriate 150,000 Somalis from the Dadaab refugee camps this year, a State Department official said on Wednesday.

As part of this additional assistance, the US intends to contribute to a forthcoming special UN appeal focused on the Dadaab repatriations, said Margaret McKelvey, director of the Africa aid office in the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.

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