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No voting, citizenship rights for refugees in new integration plan

Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, Garissa County. [File, Standard]

Refugees living in Kenya will not gain citizenship or voting rights under the government’s new Shirika Plan, which seeks to integrate them into host communities. 

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