A committee that groups Kenya, Somalia and the UN refugee agency UNHCR said this on Sunday. Kenya aims to reduce by almost half the population of Dadaab refugee camp, home to about 326,000 mostly Somali refugees, by the end of the year. A UN official said on Sunday that the new target of reducing the Dadaab population by 150,000 was a prospective figure and it was not guaranteed to be achieved. Kenya has said it wants to close the camp, which was once home to more than half a million refugees, citing security threats. But Kenya has been urged by the United States, the United Nations and others to ensure no one is forced to return to Somalia.

Source: The Star June 27, 2016 10:52 UTC