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Kenya: Govt Backpedals On Closure of Somali Refugee Camp
IRIN, 29 April 2015
Kenya appears to have softened its stance on the imminent closure of a camp hosting more than a third of a million Somali refugees, weeks after the deputy president announced it… Read more »
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East Africa: Focus On Migration - the Positive Legacy of Refugee Camps
SciDev.Net, 24 April 2015
On 2 April, members of the Al-Shabaab Islamic militant group attacked Garissa University in Kenya, killing nearly 150 people. Soon after, the Kenyan government ordered the closure… Read more »
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Kenya: UN Refugee Chief to Visit to Discuss Return of Somali Refugees
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 21 April 2015
The head of the U.N. refugee agency will visit Kenya in early May to discuss plans to repatriate more than 335,800 Somali refugees following a massacre by Somali Islamists at a… Read more »
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Kenya: Somali Refugees Ready to Return Home - UNHCR
Capital FM, 21 April 2015
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday said immigrants living at the Dadaab Camp in Kenya were willing to return to Somalia voluntarily. Read more »
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Kenya: Expelling Dadaab Refugees Will Create Legal Headwinds
The Star, 20 April 2015
In the wake of the Garissa University College terrorist attack that left 147 dead, among them 142 university students pursuing their studies at the institution, there have been all… Read more »
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Kenya: For Safety of Kenyans, Somali Refugees Should Go Home
The Star, 18 April 2015
"The United Nations must understand the security of Kenyans comes first. Even if it is about human rights, it should not be at our expense." -Parliamentary Committee on… Read more »
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Kenya: Danish Refugee Council Calls for Dadaab to Remain Open
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 17 April 2015
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Somalia: Crisis Looms for Somali Refugees As Kenya Orders Closure of Dadaab Refugee Camp
Dalsan Radio, 16 April 2015
Forcibly returning around 350,000 refugees to Somalia would be a violation of Kenya's obligations under international law and put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk, Amnesty… Read more »
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Somalia: Somali Refugees Must Not Be Forcibly Returned From Dadaab
Shabelle, 16 April 2015
Calls by Kenyan officials to close a sprawling refugee camp in northeastern Kenya housing hundreds of thousands of people from Somalia will have dramatic and life-threatening… Read more »
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Africa: Dadaab, Kenya - Somali Refugees Must Not Be Forcibly Returned, Says MSF
MSF, 16 April 2015
Calls by Kenyan officials to close Dadaab refugee camp, in northeastern Kenya, within three months and forcibly return its residents to Somalia would have dramatic and… Read more »
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Kenya: UNHCR Urges Kenyan Government Rethink On Dadaab Closure Announcement
UNHCR, 14 April 2015
The UN refugee agency, responding to Kenya's announcement that the Dadaab refugee camps should be closed within three months and 350,000 Somali refugees returned home, on Tuesday… Read more »
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Somalia: UNHCR Warns Kenya Not to Close Dadaab Refugee Camp
Shabelle, 14 April 2015
The United Nations refugee agency today urged Kenyan authorities to reconsider their decision to shut down within the next three months Dadaab refugee camps, a decision that would… Read more »
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Kenya: UNHCR Statement On the Future of Kenya's Dadaab Refugee Camps
UNHCR, 14 April 2015
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Karin de Gruijl - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 14 April 2015, at the Palais des… Read more »
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Kenya: Kenya Demands UN Move Massive Refugee Camp
DW, 11 April 2015
The Kenyan government has given the UN three months to relocate the world's largest refugee camp over the border to Somalia. Nairobi has vowed a tough response following the recent… Read more »
Kenya Backpedals on Closure of Somali Refugee Camp
The government had asked the UN Refugee Agency to relocate Somali refugees in the Dadaab shortly after 148 people were killed at Garissa University, in an attack claimed by Al-Shabaab.
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The government has called for the relocation of thousands of Somali refugees in a move that is aimed at tightening security following the Garissa University College terror attack ... Read more »
