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| UNHCR repatriates 4,753 Somali refugees in 2 weeks | |
| 2017-02-15 | |
| The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that it has repatriated some 4,753 Somali refugees in Kenya by road between Jan. 16-31 before a court suspended the closure of the world’s largest refugee camp in northeast Kenya. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its bi-weekly Update that in total as of Jan. 31, 44, 365 Somali refugees had returned home since December 8, 2014 when the UN agency started supporting voluntary return of refugees in Kenya.
According to UNHCR, flight transporting returnees to Mogadishu remained temporarily suspended during the month of January owing to the security situation in Mogadishu during the current presidential election process in Somalia. During the period under review, the UNHCR said it the Voluntary Repatriation Cross Border Meeting was held on Jan. 31 to deliberate on security situation in the 12 areas of return, the impact of drought on repatriation and reintegration process, cross-border peace building projects and enhancing provision of country of origin information as well as monitoring and management of cases of returnees with specific needs. The UN refugee agency also said ten flights were organized during the period under review, transporting 1,030 non-Somali refugees to Kalobeyei at the Kakuma camp in northwest Kenya. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 I once met a young somali journalist living in kenya who, as a child, was one of the boys running through the streets of mogadishu laughing and carrying on as the dead bodies of us military were being dragged behind a car after black hawk down He went to the uk for a conference, where he promptly claimed refugee status He showed no evidence that he had changed his ideas. He loved islam. a lot Trump tries to face this threat and gets sabotaged by the Deep State who are trying to stop us allying wih russia to smash this ideology |
| Posted by: anon1 2017-02-15 18:41 |