The world's biggest refugee camp has more people than some countries—and Kenya has decided it is time for them to go back where they came from, war or no war. The country's government announced Wednesday that it plans to shut down the Dadaab camp, which holds around 330,000 Somali refugees, as part of a plan to send all 600,000 refugees in the country elsewhere, the AP reports. The government claims the sprawling camp complex in the country's northeast harbors al-Shabab militants who have launched at least three attacks from Dadaab. In other developments:
- Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery says weapons were smuggled through the camp and it is being closed for "pressing national security" reasons, the Guardian reports. "The refugees will be repatriated to their countries of origin or to third-party countries for resettlement," the minister told reporters in Nairobi. They have been given until May 2017 to leave Dadaab.