refugee camp

Just one day before the end of the 14-day ultimatum issued by the Kenyan Interior Ministry to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to draw up a roadmap for the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps, which accommodate more than 400,000 people. Kenya's two largest refugee camps are now in danger of being closed by the government. Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps host at least 410,000 people from different countries including but not limited to Somali, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and…

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…