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Kenya: Plan to Close Two Camps Worries Refugees
VOA, 2 April 2021
The Kenya Interior Ministry's announcement last week of its intention to close two major camps has increased uncertainty for hundreds of thousands of refugees, leaving many of them… Read more »
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Kenya: Rights Groups, Residents Decry Kenyan Demand to Close Huge Refugee Camps
VOA, 25 March 2021
Kenyan authorities have ordered the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) to make plans to close two refugee camps that are home to more than 400,000 refugees, mainly Somalis and… Read more »
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Kenya: Govt Orders Closure of Dadaab, Kakuma Refugee Camps
Nation, 24 March 2021
Kenya has ordered the closure of the massive Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps, which collectively host over 500,000 people, within the next two weeks. Read more »
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Kenya: Integration Ends Feuds Between Refugees and Residents
Nation, 8 February 2021
Since the inception of Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana County, there has been a push and pull between refugees and the host community. Read more »
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Kenya: Kakuma Refugees Tailoring Their Way Out of Poverty
Nation, 8 February 2021
When they fled their home countries years ago and joined Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana County, they did not know what the future held. Read more »
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Kenya: Kakuma Refugees Seek Relocation Over Insecurity
East African, 2 May 2020
A group of refugees in the northern Kenyan camp of Kakuma are requesting to be relocated to another country, citing increased insecurity. Read more »
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Kenya: Coronavirus Could Decimate Refugees, Warns Lobby Group
Nation, 31 March 2020
Life in most Kenyan refugee camps is characterised by cramped living conditions, little access to clean water and limited access to healthcare. Read more »
Kenya Orders Closure of Dadaab, Kakuma Refugee Camps
The government has given the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees a 14-day ultimatum to ensure closure of the facilities which collectively host over 500,000 people, failing which it plans to transport the refugees to the border with Somalia. The government is citing national security threats posed by some of the refugees, including past terror attacks that have been linked to accomplices of the Somali-based Al-Shabaab militant group within the camps. Officials have said Kenya can no longer continue to bear the burden of the two camps that have been in operation since the early 1990s, when Somalia sank into civil war.
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The UN refugee agency has noted that U.S. immigration officials recently rejected all 56 of the Somali cases in Dadaab -the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya- that had been ... Read more »
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A leaked UN report has said that the Kenyan government is planning the closure of Dadaab, once the world's largest refugee camp, which has almost 210,000 people, in 2019 writes ... Read more »
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