REUTERS/Thomas MukoyaAn aerial view shows makeshift shelters at the Dagahaley camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, April 3, 2011.  Dadaab is the biggest refugee camp in the world, with more than 332,000 refugees mainly from Somalia, originally designed to accommodate 90,000 people.
Kenya plans to close all of its refugee camps in a move that would displace more than 600,000 people.
 
The country's government said it was shutting down the camps due to “very heavy” economic, security and environmental issues. Those due to close include Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world, home to more than 300,000 people on the Kenya-Somalia border.

 
Karanja Kibicho, Kenya’s secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, cited the influence of terror group Al-Shabaab as among the risks of keeping the camps open.
Kenya plans to close all of its refugee camps in a move that would displace more than 600,000 people.
 
Liesbeth Aelbrecht, Medecins sans Frontieres’ head of mission in Kenya, said the move was another example of the “blatant neglect of millions of refugees” around the world.
 
Ms Aelbrecht said: "MSF is urging the government to reconsider this call, and – alongside the international organisations already present in the camp – to continue to provide humanitarian assistance and ensure acceptable living conditions for the hundreds of thousands of people who desperately need it."
 
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