Fate of Dadaab Refugee Camp in Limbo as Kenya Presses for Closure

More than once in recent years, Kenyan officials have called for the closure of Dadaab refugee camp in eastern Kenya, home to more than 200,000 refugees and asylum seekers, many of whom fled Somalia during or since the 1991 civil war. In February, Kenya's government wrote to the U.N. refugee agency, ordering the camp closed by mid-year. The fate of thousands of refugees is in limbo. Mohammed Aden says his parents fled Somalia's Gedo region for Kenya 27 years ago. He was just...

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