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

Dadaab was set up in 1992 to cope with people fleeing the abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong war in Somalia. It is made up of five abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong camps and is run by the United Nations. When Kenya's government said it would close the camp, human rights abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong around the world became abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong. They feared that sending back so abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong refugees to Somalia would create another humanitarian abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong. The human rights group Amnesty International welcomed the High Court's decision. It said Kenya had a abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong to protect refugees from harm. It said: "Today is a historic day for more than a abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong of a million refugees who were at abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong of being forcefully returned to Somalia, where they would have been at serious risk of human rights abusesattemptbecausecivilcrisisdecisiondiscriminationdutygiantgroupgroupslargestmanynationalityquarterrefugeesriskterroristworriedwrong."