More than half a million Somali refugees living in Kenya will be repatriated. After United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR signed a tripartite agreement with the governments in Nairobi and Mogadishu on Sunday. Under the agreement, the Somalis will be repatriated voluntarily over the next three years. The Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in northern Kenya are currently home to more than a million Somalis.
Syrian government forces are taking full control of a key airbase close to the international airport in Aleppo after fierce clashes with rebels. The Syrian opposition says that more than 50 rebels and more than 30 pro-Assad fighters were killed. The Syrian opposition says a temporary lifting of the government blockade to allow some food supplies into the Damascus suburb of Qudsaya has been negotiated. The suburb has been under siege for a month.
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More than 30,000 Yemenis have crossed the border into their home country in the last ten days from Saudi Arabia, which is currently expelling many illegal foreign workers. Reports from the border say some migrants accused Saudi police of abuse and say the deportation centers are overcrowded with insufficient food and water.
Police in Spain have broken up a major Nigerian prostitution ring. They have arrested 25 Nigerians, who they accuse of trafficking women from the West African country with a promise of a better life in Europe and then forcing them to work as prostitutes there. They said five Nigerian women were freed in the operation.