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Refugees fleeing to Kenya surge 19 percent to 823,932

Somali refugees walking in the new Ifo-extension at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya on July 31, 2011.

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

By  Linet Owoko

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

The number of refugees and asylum seekers in Kenya rose by 19.1 percent to 823,932 last year, from 691,868 in 2023, according to the Economic Survey released on Tuesday.

More than half of these refugees and asylum seekers came from Somalia (56.9 percent) and South Sudan (23.4 percent).

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