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Apr 2021
19m 29s

Kenya’s latest call to close Dadaab refu...

Al Jazeera
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Kenya has hosted Dadaab refugee camp since the 1990s. And those camps have hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees, mainly from Somalia. Dadaab was meant to be temporary, and Kenya’s government is very aware of that. The government called for Dadaab to be shut down last month — something it’s asked for before. What does this mean for the refugees who call Dadaab home?

In this episode:

Humanitarian journalist Moulid Hujale (@MoulidHujale); Catherine Soi (@C_SOI), Al Jazeera correspondent covering East and Central Africa; Deck Abdullahi Ali

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