Why closure of Dadaab demands more than government decision

The Dadaab Complex is not your ordinary refugee camp. Originally designed to accommodate 90,000 refugees, the camps now hold over four times their intended capacity.

It is this complex that the Kenyan government on Wednesday announced plans to shut down and repatriate hundreds of thousands of refugees, most of them Somalis, to their home country. From various accounts, Somalia is still grappling with ravages of war and broken political systems in some regions.