Kenya’s two biggest refugee camps could be transformed into new permanent urban centres in a move to relieve Nairobi of the security burden while sustaining its humanitarian obligations.
The changeover, expected to be in effect within five years, will mean all the refugees currently hosted in Dadaab and Kakuma will neither be forced out nor given citizenships but will be granted special IDs with which they can validly conduct income-generating activities in Kenya as their camps are turned into permanent centres, rather than tented cities.
