Summit scuttles Kenya’s plan to repatriate refugees
Somali refugees sit outside a refugee camp near Dadaab. A recent Inter-Governmental Authority on Development Special Summit on Somalia refugees has complicated plans by Kenya to close the Dadaab camp by end of May 2017. PHOTO | AFP
The recent summit on Somalia refugees held in Nairobi has further complicated plans by Kenya to close the Dadaab camp by the end of May.
The resolutions of the summit held on March 25, require countries hosting Somali refugees to not only align their laws and policies to the 1951 Refugee Convention that does not allow forced repatriation, but to provide education, training and skills development for refugees to reduce their dependence on humanitarian assistance.
