Kenya re-emphasised its position on the world’s largest refugee camp yesterday, stating that plans for the repatriation of the more than 360,000 Somali refugees within the camp will proceed as planned.
According to Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed, more than 16,000 refugees have already returned home on the voluntary repatriation programme that was agreed upon by refugee agency United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the Somali Government as well as the Kenyan government.
Ms Mohammed said the process will be implemented with continued support of the governments of Kenya and Somali and other international partners. “The process is ongoing and began a week ago.
It is going to be complex but we are ready to take the challenges on,” said the CS who spoke yesterday in Nairobi during a ministerial tripartite commission meeting between the governments of Kenya and Somalia and the UNHCR. The meeting was attended by Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotion Minister