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Kenya promises not to force refugees home

President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) with UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres at State House, Nairobi. (Photo:PSCU)

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta promised Wednesday not to force refugees home, backtracking on a three-month deadline issued by his deputy that would have pushed hundreds of thousands back to war zones.

Kenya had threatened to send refugees home -- including closing the world's largest camp complex in Dadaab, where more than 360,000 Somali refugees live -- following last month's university massacre of 148 people in Garissa by Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabaab insurgents.

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