Kenya
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Kenya has been a temporary home for more than 500,000 refugees. According to the UNCHR, those refugees are mostly from Somalia (54%), though Kenya also hosts refugees from South Sudan (24.6%), the Congo (9%); Ethiopia (5.8%), as well as Sudan, Rwanda, Eritrea, Burundi, Uganda and others (6.8%).

In March, Kenya told the UNCHR to close two of the country’s largest refugee camps–Dadaab and Kakuma–WaPo reports. The Dadaab camp has mostly held Somalis, with multiple generations born there. The desire the close the camp comes from security concerns; Kenya believes that the terrorist organization al-Shabaab is connected to the camp and has attacked Kenyan sites in retaliation for Kenya’s military involvement with Somalia. The Kakuma camp, in turn, largely houses South Sudanese refugees.

The UNCHR has agreed to shut the camps within the next year. It is planning to repatriate refugees or relocate them to camps in other nations.

-KitJ