Sunday, February 2, 2014
THE United Nation High Commission for Refugees has reiterated its earlier call for countries hosting refugees from Somalia not to repatriate them yet the country is not safe.
The UN agency said Southern and Central Somalia are too dangerous. Kenya hosts the highest number of Somali refugees in the region at the Dadaab camp. “We are appealing to all states to uphold their international obligations with regard to no forced returns, or non-refoulement.
Somali nationals should not be forcibly returned to Somalia unless the returning state is convinced that the persons involved will not be at risk of persecution,” UNHCR spokesman Dan MacIsaac, said in a statement from Geneva yesterday.
He said Somalis are at risk of being killed or wounded in crossfire between government forces and al Shabaab militants as well as by bombs and as bystanders in targeted attacks.
Source: The Star