Kenya announced in May that it planned to close Dadaab camp in Northeastern due to fears the sprawling complex had been infiltrated by militants. "The places of origin of many of the refugees in Dadaab are still very insecure," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told a news conference in Nairobi on Monday. Kenya's government has reversed a decision to close Kakuma, a second camp on its northern border hosting almost 200,000 refugees, mainly from South Sudan, Grandi said. Kenya must relax its November deadline for sending some 350,000 Somalis home from the world's largest refugee complex as parts of their war-torn nation are unsafe, the United Nations refugee chief said on Monday. Returnees that Grandi met in Somalia also asked for schools, health centres and help reconstructing their homes, he said.

Source: The Star June 14, 2016 08:15 UTC