More time needed to send Somali refugees home – U.N

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. He called on donors to provide funding to create jobs and build infrastructure in Somalia to allow refugees in the Dabaab […]

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.
He called on donors to provide funding to create jobs and build infrastructure in Somalia to allow refugees in the Dabaab camp who wish to return home to nine areas regarded as safe by the U.N. to do so.
“The places of origin of many of the refugees in Dadaab are still very insecure,” the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told a news conference in Nairobi on Monday.
Kenya announced in May that it planned to close Dadaab camp in the east of the country, home to 350,000 mainly Somali refugees, due to fears the sprawling complex had been infiltrated by militants.