Kenya’s Dadaab, Kakuma camps face possible closure

The United Nations Refugee Agency says it is in discussions with the Kenyan government on a way forward regarding the possible closure of the Dabaab and Kakuma refugee camps. The camps host more than 40 000 people. Last month, Kenya's High Court suspended the government’s move to shut down two camps that hold hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn neighbouring countries. On this programme we ask the question: Why is it that the refugee camps have been a sore point for the President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government? To unpack this, presenter Benjamin Moshatama speaks to Professor Douglas Yates, an American Political Scientist residing in Paris and Dr Christiano D’orsi, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (affiliated with the University of Johannesburg)…