Kenya plans to close world's biggest refugee camp Dadaab: document
Tents fill the outskirts of Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex on July 24, 2011. Dadaab was opened over twenty years ago, with a capacity of 90,000 people. Current estimates place the refugee population here at around 230,000 people. PHOTO | PHIL MOORE | AFP
Kenya plans to shutter the world's largest refugee camp, home to nearly a quarter of a million people, in the next few months, according to an internal UN document seen by AFP Tuesday.
The three-decade-old Dadaab camp in eastern Kenya, which shelters mostly Somalis, would be closed by the end of August under the Kenyan plan, it said.
