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Kenya: Rights group accuses police of abusing Somali refugees

Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya suffer extortion and abuse by corrupt and violent police, a human rights watchdog said on Monday.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) also accused the Kenyan authorities of forcibly deporting hundreds of asylum seekers trying to reach the camp, according to a new report 'From Horror to Hopelessness: Kenya's forgotten Somali Refugee Crisis'.

More than quarter of a million refugees live in Dadaab's three overcrowded camps in the arid, poverty stricken northeast of Kenya -- the world's largest refugee settlement.


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Kenya: U.N. effort to establish Somali refugee camp falters

Nairobi (Xinhua) -- A bid by the UN refugee agency to create a refugee camp on 6,000-acre (about 2,400 hectares) land in northern Kenyan town of Garissa to accommodate more...

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