The hundreds of thousands of people living in Kenya's sprawling Dadaab refugee camp have been spared eviction - for now. Early in February the High Court in Nairobi overturned a government directive to close the camp and disband the country's department of refugee affairs.
The judgment was delivered in response to a petition filed by two human rights bodies, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and Kituo Cha Sheria or Legal Advice Centre. They were supported by Amnesty International.
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