{"id":118057,"date":"2021-04-10T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T02:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118057"},"modified":"2021-04-10T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T02:46:11","slug":"kenya-court-halts-move-by-government-to-close-refugee-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118057","title":{"rendered":"Kenya court halts move by government to close refugee camps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Kenya-court-halts-move-by-government-to-close-refugee-camps-1228492?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/298\/29870579.295.jpg\" alt=\"The Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAIROBI, April 10 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Kenya\u2019s High Court has temporarily  halted a move by the government to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps housing nearly 500,000 people.<br><br>The court issued a stay order on Thursday following a petition filed to the high court that challenged a decision by the Interior Ministry calling on the UN refugee agency to formulate a plan to close the camps as soon as possible. Most of the refugees are Somali.<br><br>The case will be initially heard on April 13.<br><br>Kenya gave the UN Refugee Agency a 14-day ultimatum on March 24 to formulate a plan to close the camps, Kenya\u2019s Interior Ministry tweeted, saying there is no room for further negotiations.<br><br>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) promptly responded and warned of a catastrophe if refugees are ejected from the Dadaab and Kakuma camps which have a population of 218,873 and 196,666, respectively.<br><br>The East African country revealed plans to shut the Dadaab camp in November 2016, citing a security threat to Kenyans.<br><br>Kenya alleged that al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab terrorists who attacked Garissa University, killing more than 140 students in 2015, had been facilitated by sympathizers from the camp, citing it as the main reason for the closure. &#8212; NNN-AFRICANEWS<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya NAIROBI, April 10 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Kenya\u2019s High Court has temporarily halted a move by the government to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps housing nearly 500,000 people. The court issued a stay order on Thursday following a petition filed to the high court that challenged a decision by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}