Dadaab refugee camp to be closed by November, says Nkaissery

Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery receives a sensitization programme on the exercise for communities hosting refugees report from Mr Joseph Irungu at Harambee House in Nairobi on May 31, 2016, where he said that Kenya is committed to close Dadaab refugee camp. He said the decision to repatriate refugees was arrived at in November 2013, when Kenya, Somalia and UNHCR signed a Tripartite Agreement setting grounds for the exercise. 31/05/2016. Photo by WILLIS AWANDU

The process to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps will be completed November.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery said repatriation of the refugees will be done in a humane way. An 11-member team has compiled a report on how the repatriation will be done.