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Is closing down Dadaab camp the solution to insecurity?

According to our government Dadaab is to be closed down by November due to insecurity. Other countries are scrambling to pay attention and beg Kenya not to follow through.

I believe that Dadaab is called a camp because of the tents, but it comes nothing close to a refugee camp. This tented city was set up in 1991 to support up to 120,000 people but today, double the number live in this tented city and they have lived here for up to 25 years.

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