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First batch of 90 Somali refugees return home

Kenya: The International Organisation of Migration (IOM), in partnership with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) early this week embarked on a voluntary repatriation of 94 Somali refugees living in Kenya.

The exercise, which started on Monday and ended yesterday was the first of voluntary return of Somali refugees, 23 years after conflict and famine drove them from their homeland.

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