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Kenya’s Interior Minister has announced that the world’s largest refugee camp will close in November and not May next year.
The Dadaab camp in Kenya is home to more than 300,000 Somalis. Kenya says it will work closely with the UN and the Somali government to repatriate the refugees.
Dadaab was set up in 1991 to house families fleeing conflict in Somalia, and some people have been living there for more than 20 years. Kenya says it wants to close the camp over security concerns, saying attacks on its soil have been planned there.
