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The High Court in Kenya has the Kenyan government's attempt to the largest refugee camp in the world. The Dadaab camp 330,000 refugees. Kenya's government to close it and 260,000 Somali refugees back to Somalia. The High Court it was wrong to send the Somalis back just because of their nationality. A judge : "The government's decision specifically targeting Somali refugees an act of group persecution." He that it was discrimination. Kenya's government said it wanted to close the camp because of security worries. It said that terrorist attacks in Kenya by the Somalia-based al-Shabab group were in the camp.

Dadaab was up in 1992 to cope with people the civil war in Somalia. It is made up of five giant camps and is by the United Nations. When Kenya's government said it would the camp, human rights groups around the world worried. They that sending back so many refugees to Somalia would another humanitarian crisis. The human rights group Amnesty International welcomed the High Court's decision. It said Kenya had a duty to refugees from harm. It said: "Today is a historic day for more than a quarter of a million refugees who were at risk of being forcefully to Somalia, where they would have at serious risk of human rights abuses."