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Somali Refugees in the Hands of UNHCR

By immigrationprof

The Associated Press reports:

Kenya handed 22 Somalis — mainly women and children — who spent about two weeks in the transit lounge of the capital’s main airport to the U.N.’s refugee agency, the agency said Monday.

Kenyan immigration officials transported the exhausted asylum-seekers from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi to Dadaab refugee camp in the northeastern region of Kenya on Saturday, said the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in a statement, expressing concern over the fate of three others whose whereabouts remained unclear. Click here for the full story.

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