Kenya said on Wednesday Nov 16,2016 it had to agreed to delay the closure of a huge Somali refugee camp that it sees as a security risk, after international pressure to give residents more time to find new homes.
The official said the camp was now home to about 250,000 people, while U.N. officials had put the figure at about 350,000 at the start of the year.
More than half a million people lived there a few years ago
Kenya is drawing up a timetable for closing the Dadaab refugee camp, home to about 350,000 Somali refugees, the interior minister announced
Having suffered multiple attacks claimed by the Islamist Somali group al-Shabab, Kenya has set up a taskforce to handle the closure plan, Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said
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