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Kenya enacts new refugee bill

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a new refugee bill that allows asylum seekers easier access to education, and opportunities to integrate and earn a living. It comes just six months before a planned shutdown by the authorities of two camps housing more than half a million refugees.

• The authorities say the camps have been used as breeding grounds for terrorists blamed for some of the worst attacks on Kenyan soil. Kenya has been in a protracted struggle with the UN refugee agency over plans to shut down the Kakuma and Daadab refugee camps that for decades, have been home to half a million refugees mainly from Somalia and South Sudan.
• In September, the President rejected an earlier bill that sought to compel the state to provide housing and social amenities to refugees at special transit centres.

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Published date : 19 Nov 2021 06:51PM