Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Kenya To Close The World’s Largest Refugee Camp

An aerial shot of Dadaab, the world's biggest refuge camp. Daily Star

The Guardian: Kenya says it will shut world's biggest refugee camp at Dadaab

Government vows to close camp, home to 330,000 mostly Somali refugees, and send them back home or on to other countries.

Kenya has vowed to close the world’s biggest refugee camp within a year and send hundreds of thousands of Somalis back to their war-torn homeland or on to other countries, a plan decried by aid and human rights groups as dangerous, illegal and impractical.

Kenya says it needs to close the sprawling Dadaab camp, home to 330,000 mostly Somali refugees, to protect the country’s security after a string of terror attacks by al-Shabaab.

The Somalia-based militant group was behind the massacre of nearly 150 students at a university last summer, the Westgate mall siege in Nairobi in 2013 and the killings of civilians across Kenya.

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More News On Kenya Closing Down Its Refugee Camps

Kenya to Close Dadaab, World's Biggest Refugee Camp -- AP
Largest Refugee Camp Pictures: In Kenya, Dangerous Dadaab Camp Ordered Closed -- IBTimes
Kenya Begins Immediate Repatriation of Refugees in Dadaab Camp -- Bloomberg
Kenya is pulling welcome mat on 600,000 refugees, triggering fear of another mass migration -- L.A. Times
Dadaab refugee camp will be closed by May 2017 - Kibicho -- The Star
Why Kenya’s threat to close its refugee camps is even worse than you think -- Stephanie Schwartz, Washington Post

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