Kenya threatens mass refugee expulsion

28 Oct 2011, 8:39 pm   -   Source: SBS Staff - Santilla Chingaipe
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In the Dadaab refugee camp - Getty Images

In the Dadaab refugee camp - Getty Images

Kenya's Foreign Minister tells SBS his country is planning to push hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees back across the border.

Kenya threatens mass refugee expulsion

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Kenya's Foreign Minister says his country is planning to push hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees back across the border.

Moses Wetangula says Kenya has been carrying a heavy burden of refugees for too long, and their camps have now been infiltrated by members of the militant al-Shabaab group from Somalia.

He says Kenyan troops sent into southern Somalia recently are creating conditions suitable for the return of refugees, under the supervision of the United Nations.

In Perth for the CHOGM, Mr Wetangula told Santilla Chingaipe that Kenya rejects claims by some aid officials that its incursion across the border has made the humanitarian situation worse.

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