{"id":9820,"date":"2016-07-06T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=9820"},"modified":"2016-08-30T22:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T22:08:31","slug":"kenya-un-starts-sorting-false-from-genuine-refugees-in-dadaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-un-starts-sorting-false-from-genuine-refugees-in-dadaab\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: UN starts sorting false from genuine refugees in Dadaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are aware of Kenyans falsely registering as refugees in order to get free services and food&#8221; &#8211; UN refugee agency spokesman<\/p>\n<p>In Summary:<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-sidebar\">\n<section class=\"summary\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kenyan government has pledged it will not violate its international obligations by forcing any refugees to leave the country.<\/li>\n<li>A total of 16,524 Somalis have been formally assisted by the UN in returning to Somalia from Dadaab during the past 18 months.<\/li>\n<li>Of that total, 10,413 have gone to Somalia during the first six months of this year, Mr Mwancha reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"body-copy\">\n<div>\n<p>The United Nations on Monday launched a \u201cverification exercise\u201d to determine how many residents of the Dadaab complex are actually Kenya citizens posing as Somali refugees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of Kenyans falsely registering as refugees in order to get free services and food,\u201d UN refugee agency spokesman Duke Mwancha told the <em>Nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The UN currently has no estimate of the size of this segment of Dadaab&#8217;s population of 340,000.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Mwancha says his agency is aiming to specify within two months the number of Kenyans living in the camps under false pretences.<\/p>\n<p>This effort to compile a \u201cclean register\u201d is part of a recent agreement involving the UN and the governments of Kenya and Somalia to facilitate the return of 150,000 Somalis to their homeland by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Read further at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/1056-3280390-6hgcdtz\/index.html\">The Nation.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are aware of Kenyans falsely registering as refugees in order to get free services and food&#8221; &#8211; UN refugee agency spokesman In Summary: The Kenyan government has pledged it will not violate its international obligations by forcing any refugees to leave the country. A total of 16,524 Somalis have been formally assisted by the [&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-9820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-395","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-nationality-and-refugees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820","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=9820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9823,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions\/9823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}