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Kenya praised as home to most refugees in Africa

Kenya is the country of choice for asylum seekers in Africa with over 550,000 refugees on its soil, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Country Representative Raouf Mazou has said.

Mr Mazou said Kenya is also the fifth stop in the world for asylum seekers after Pakistan, Iran, Jordan and Lebanon, adding that at present there are refugees and asylum seekers from over 20 nations in the country.

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