February 5, 2017 12:42 AM

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140 Somali refugees set to leave for US sent back to camp

About 140 Somali refugees whose resettlement in the United States this week was stopped by President Donald Trump's executive order have been sent back to their refugee camp instead, one of the refugees said today.'<br/>'<br/>It was not clear why they were sent back a day after a US court order blocked Trump's ban on travellers and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Somalia. Officials with the International Organisation for Migration, which runs the transit centre in Nairobi where the refugees had been waiting for their flights to the US, could not be reached for comment.'<br/>'<br/>The fate of the Somali refugees is especially uncertain because Kenya's government has vowed to close their Dadaab camp, the world's largest, by the end of May, citing security concerns. '<br/>'<br/>Human rights groups have protested Kenya's plans to close Dadaab, saying some of the more than 2,50,000 refugees there have reported being pressured to leave the camp and that Somalia remains too unstable for people to return home.<br/>''''''<br/><br/>

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