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Kenya presses for stronger global backing on refugee burden

Kakuma Camp. [File, Photo]

Kenya has called for intensified international support to ease pressure on refugee-hosting countries, warning that declining funding and rising displacement are placing the Horn of Africa under severe strain.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen said the region is confronting levels of forced displacement never seen before, with more than 122 million people uprooted globally and about six million from IGAD member states.

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