By KEVIN J. KELLEYMore by this AuthorSmaller numbers of Somalis are returning to their homeland from the Dadaab camps, the United Nations refugee agency reported on Monday. At the same time, increasingly dire conditions in Somalia are driving a new set of refugees into the Dadaab complex. NON-SOMALISA UN effort to relocate non-Somali refugees from Dadaab to the Kakuma camps in Turkana County has meanwhile been suspended. “People not showing up for departures render flights uneconomical,” the refugee agency added. The UN refugee agency, along with the Somali and Kenyan governments, have jointly initiated a voluntary return programme in response to those concerns.

Source: Daily Nation May 09, 2017 14:10 UTC