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After attacks, Kenya restricts refugee freedoms

By Jason Straziuso
Published December 14, 2012 4:47pm ET
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After attacks, Kenya restricts refugee freedoms
FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 file photo, newly arrived Somali refugees wait outside a UNHCR processing center at the Ifo refugee camp outside Dadaab, eastern Kenya, 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the Somali border. After enduring months of grenade and other explosive device attacks, Kenya has announced new, more stringent controls aimed primarily at Somali refugees inside its borders, announcing this week that all refugees and asylum seekers from Somalia must return to the refugee camp complex in northern Kenya known as Dadaab. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) | Jerome Delay

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — After enduring months of grenade and other explosive device attacks, Kenya announced new, more stringent controls aimed primarily at Somali refugees inside its borders.

A Kenya parliamentarian criticized the measures, saying they are akin to opening concentration camps, and the United Nations refugee agency said Friday that it is in consultations to preserve refugees’ rights.

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