Kenya to close refugee camps, displacing more than 600,000

[Little Tich]

Source: CNN

Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Kenya will close all refugee camps, a move that would displace more than 600,000 people living there, the government announced Friday.

The decision includes Dadaab, the largest such camp in the world. It's home to more than 300,000 people on the Kenya-Somalia border.

The government is shutting down the camps because of "very heavy" economic, security and environmental burdens, senior Interior Ministry official Karanja Kibicho said in a statement.

"Kenya, having taken into consideration its national security interests, has decided that hosting of refugees has come to an end," Kibicho said, pointing to threats, such as the terror group Al-Shabaab.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/06/africa/kenya-closing-refugee-camps/

[Jnclr89]

1. Sorry to say but this will only only increase

the amount of bush meat people there will need to survive. Expect an increase in endangered wildlife killed in the next few years. Chimps, gorillas, elephants, rhinos... ect.

[JCMach1]

2. This move is Uhuru Kenyatta's equivalent to Donald Trump's well

and, shocker, there is an election coming-up next year.

You will find Somalis all over Kenya, it's just the unfortunate who managed to get stuck in the camps.

Now, the ruling government wants to move the refugees in a misplaced attempt to control terrorism.

Looks like paradise, no?

[Redwoods Red]

3. What does Kenya propose to do with all these people?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I expect they hope they'll make their way to the Mediterranean

and risk the crossing to Europe. If they say Al-Shabaab is a threat when the refugees are in the camps in Kenya, they'll be a threat to them if they returned to Somalia.

It's possible that the international community is not doing enough to help keep the refugees in a decent state in the camps; we did that with the Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, and hundreds of thousands of them went to Europe as a result. Kenya may be doing this to try and get the world to support the camps.