SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dadaab, Kakuma, Jessica Buchanan
13 May 2016
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Kenya says it needs to close the sprawling dadaab camp, home to 330,000 mostly. Somali refugees, to protect the country"s security after a string of terror attacks by al- Shabaab: the somalia-based militant group was behind a massacre of nearly 150 students at a university last summer and the westgate mall siege in nairobi in 2013, as well as other deadly attacks. Kenya has commenced the exercise of closing dadaab refugee complex, he said at a news conference in nairobi. Kenya"s second-biggest camp, in kakuma, which largely houses refugees from south. Sudan, appears to have been spared for now, although earlier government announcements had said all refugees would be told to leave: those at dadaab have been given until the end of may 2017 to depart kenya. Same with charitable ngos; furthermore, it"s too dangerous for charitable organizations (see buchanan).
