Kenya: How to Get Rid of Refugees, Kenyan Style

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Kenya hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world, mostly in Dadaab, which is also the biggest refugee camp in the world. But Kenya's patience is running thin. Having repeatedly threatened to shut down Dadaab, the country is now resorting to fear and intimidation to force refugees to return to Somalia. By SIMON ALLISON.

Kenya hosts more than its fair share of refugees - 553,912 of them, according to the latest figures from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), although these are out of date almost as soon as they are published. That number has been increased recently by the arrival of around 8,000 new refugees from South Sudan; and, at the same time, it has been decreased by the return home of about 24,000 Somali refugees.

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