Kenya says Dadaab, Kakuma refugee camps to close next year The announcement follows a meeting between President Kenyatta and UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi.

The government in March gave the UNHCR 14 days to have a road map on the definite closure of Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps. Matiang’i at the time issued the directive to the UNHCR ...

In "City of Thorns," Ben Rawlence reports from Dadaab camp in northern Kenya, a limbo of anguished waiting. A book review.

In March 2021, Kenya ordered the swift closure of Kakuma and Dadaab – two sprawling refugee camps that host more than 400,000 people, mostly from neighbouring Somalia, South Sudan and the ...

For World Refugee Day, we see life through the lens of several youth in Dadaab refugee camp, home to 380,000 refugees from eastern Africa.

Mapping refugee camps, using aerial video, has helped UNHCR Nairobi with improved camp planning. The use of aerial video in this way suggests other ways of improving UNHCR's operations in ...

Kenya has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide a road map for the closure of Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps.

WFP on June 2025 announced the suspension of the ‘Bamba Chakula’ e-voucher leaving refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab camp at risk of ...

To the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, IDPs and Migrants in Africa Annex II: UNHCR Overview Map of Dadaab's Camps, December 2008 ...

The Dadaab complex in Kenya, which includes the three biggest camps in the world, was constructed in the early 1990s. The largest of the three, Hagadera, houses 138,102 refugees, which is ...

The government in March gave the UNHCR 14 days to have a road map on the definite closure of Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps.