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Kenya Cuts Off Refugee Camps over Fears of Catastrophic COVID-19 Outbreak

HeadlineApr 30, 2020

Kenya has banned all entry and exit from a pair of vast refugee camps, fearing an outbreak of COVID-19 could prove catastrophic for thousands of people living in cramped and squalid conditions. The camps house some 400,000 refugees from Somalia, South Sudan and Ethiopia.

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