NE Population

Mwalimu-G said:
They were found in Kenya aged eight years on promulgation of the 2010 Constitution!
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I don't think the constitution gave them just blanket citizenship, otherwise, all those camps will be closed by now or just filled with old people.
If it were so, NE will be the most populous by now, children born in the 90s in the camp now are adults and or parents


The Kenya government does not have any clear policy regulating the status of refugees who have stayed in the country for long periods of time or for children of refugees born in Kenya who have now attained the age of majority. According to the medical co-ordinator of the UNHCR run hospital in Dadaab refugee camp, the maternity wing of the hospital records an average of 70 births per month. There is no policy in place to allow for the acquisition of citizenship or residence status by refugees regardless of their length of stay. Moreover, those refugees in Kenya who succeed in getting resettlement in a third country such as in Europe, U.S.A, or Australia usually end up getting citizenship status of those countries that they resettle in and any of their children born there get the nationality there. The few refugees that managed to get Kenyan citizenship are often a select group that is either very rich and have substantial business investment in the country or are well connected politically or both. In any case, such a refugee usually gets the citizenship after payment of a substantial amount of money as registration fees in addition to the statutory requirement of the renunciation of his or her previous nationality.


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