{"id":24046,"date":"2019-10-16T09:41:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T09:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=24046"},"modified":"2019-10-16T19:59:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T19:59:14","slug":"kenya-statelessness-fears-to-delay-dadaab-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-statelessness-fears-to-delay-dadaab-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: \u2018Statelessness\u2019 fears to delay Dadaab closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kenya may be forced to delay the closure of Dadaab Refugee Camp to avoid rendering thousands of people stateless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Nairobi\u2019s delegation attending this year\u2019s intergovernmental meeting on refugees and statelessness, in Geneva, Switzerland, last week admitted there are still people in Dadaab who may not need repatriation because they are Kenyans or qualify to be citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>For a long time, cited as the World\u2019s largest refugee camp (it no longer is), Dadaab, which used to have five sub-camps, has gradually been reduced as the population leaves in what officials say is mostly through voluntary repatriation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In April, for example, Kenya degazetted Kambios and Ifo 2 Camps \u201cwhich had been emptied of refugees, who voluntarily returned home,\u201d according to the official narrative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And the earlier announcement by the Refugee Affairs Secretariat was that the camp could be shut down as early as 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/economy\/fears-to-delay-Dadaab-closure\/3946234-5313280-15pxhiz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/economy\/fears-to-delay-Dadaab-closure\/3946234-5313280-15pxhiz\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenya may be forced to delay the closure of Dadaab Refugee Camp to avoid rendering thousands of people stateless. Nairobi\u2019s delegation attending this year\u2019s intergovernmental meeting on refugees and statelessness, in Geneva, Switzerland, last week admitted there are still people in Dadaab who may not need repatriation because they are Kenyans or qualify to be [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24047,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24046\/revisions\/24047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}