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Kenya tells U.N. it will shut two camps with 410,000 refugees by June 2022 Reuters 4/29/2021
NAIROBI, April 29 (Reuters) - Kenya said on Thursday it had told the United Nations it will shut by June 2022 two camps holding over 410,000 refugees who fled from wars in the east and Horn of Africa, adding it planned to repatriate some and give others residency.
The interior ministry made the announcement on Twitter about five weeks after ordering the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps and giving the United Nations two weeks to present a plan to carry this out.
The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) replied by asking the government to ensure that vulnerable refugees would still be protected under its timeline for the closure. A Nairobi spokesman for the UNHCR did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the latest announcement.