Fate of Thousands of Refugees in Kenya Remains Uncertain

GENEVA - The fate of hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kenya hangs in the balance as U.N. officials try to dissuade Kenyan authorities from closing two camps that many have called home for the past three decades. 

The Kenyan government announced its intention to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps on March 24. It gave the U.N. refugee agency two weeks to come up with a road map for relocating the 430,000 residents of the two sprawling camps. Most come from Somalia. That deadline was up Thursday.  However, the refugees and the UNHCR have been given a last-minute reprieve. News organizations and activists report Kenya's high court on Thursday suspended the government's closure order for 30 days.