The
Kenyan government is delaying its decision to close the huge Dadaab refugee camp, which houses nearly 300,000 people,
most of them Somalis. But Kenya's interior minister insists the process to
repatriate the Somalis will continue.
Kenyan Interior minister Joseph Nkaisserry said his country
had postponed the closure of Dadaab camp, currently home to more than 280,000
Somali refugees.
Nkaisserry told reporters in Nairobi Wednesday the Kenyan
government was responding to a request by the United Nation refugee agency
UNHCR and Somali government not to close the camp.
“I wish to announce the government has accepted the request
to extend the deadline for the completion of the repatriation of Somali
refugees and eventual closure of Dadaab refugee complex by six months. However,
the ongoing voluntary repatriation will continue uninterrupted,” he said.
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