It noted that US immigration officials recently rejected all 56 of the Somali cases in Dadaab that had been proposed for resettlement in the US. By contrast, the UN agency added, Sweden approved all but two of the 29 Somali Dadaab cases it had been forwarded for review. Reuters reported a year ago that the number of Dadaab residents diagnosed with depression had almost doubled from 2016 to 2017. Nearly 2900 individuals have made their way back to Dadaab after being voluntarily repatriated to Somalia, the refugee agency noted. Kenyan officials had asked the UN refugee agency, which runs the Dadaab complex, to “expedite relocation of the refugees and asylum-seekers residing therein."

Source: Daily Nation April 25, 2019 12:53 UTC