As Kenya continues to round up and detain refugees,
migrants and asylum-seekers in a controversial anti-terrorism
operation, fears are mounting over the fate of around 300 children
separated from parents arrested during the sweeps. Some of these
children are reported to be held in a Nairobi stadium used as a
temporary detention facility, without a parent or guardian.
“Our concern is the separation of some 300 children, including babies as
young as a few months, from their mothers and fathers or customary
care-givers and foster parents,” said Emanuel Nyabera, UN Refugee Agency
(UNHCR) spokesman in Kenya.
Since early April, some 4,000 arrests have been made in Operation
Usalama Watch, mostly of Somali nationals, but also Kenyans of Somali
origin as well as nationals of other countries such as Democratic
Republic of Congo. Around 2,000 of those arrested have been transferred
to the country’s two refugee complexes. Some 359 have been deported to
Somalia.
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