Kenya issued an order on Wednesday to close two large-scale camps home to hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighboring Somalia, giving the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) two weeks to present a plan to implement the order, the Interior Ministry said.
Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in northern Kenya together host more than 410,000 people, a small proportion of whom come from South Sudan.
Authorities in Nairobi first announced their intention to close the Dadaab camp, which…