Closing refugee camps will blemish Kenya's good record

A South Sudanese refugee woman sweeps as her children sleep inside insecticide-treated bednets outside their house within Kalobeyei Settlement outside the Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana county on February 1, 2018. [Reuters]

I was in Dagahaley, one of the three camps that make up the Dadaab refugee complex, last month when news spread that Kenya was calling for closure of Dadaab and Kakuma. The two host almost half-a-million refugees.