Kenya Says It's Closing Down Refugee Camps Over Insecurity

Kenya, which hosts as many as 600,000 refugees mainly from neighboring Somalia, said it would close down its two biggest refugee camps because of the “very heavy” economic, security and environmental costs.

“The government of the Republic of Kenya, having taken into consideration its national security interests, has decided that hosting of refugees has to come to an end,” the Interior Ministry said on Friday in an e-mailed statement.