The United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Saturday it had not received a formal request from Kenya to remove a huge refugee camp housing hundreds of thousands of people from Somalia.<br /><br /> Earlier, Deputy President William Ruto said unless the UNHCR in Kenya relocated the remote Dadaab settlement near the Somali border, then the authorities in Nairobi would do so themselves.<br /><br /> In the past the Kenyan authorities have accused Islamist militants of hiding out in the camp. <br /><br /> Covering more than 50 square kilometres, Dadaab is home to people who have fled several east African conflicts including Somalia’s civil war.<br /><br /> It lies only an hour’s drive from Garissa, scene of the recent university massacre in which 148 people were killed by Somali gunmen from al-Shabaab.<br /><br /> Ruto says “the way America changed after 9/11 is the way Kenya will change after Garissa”. <br /><br /> Kenya and Somalia have an agreement to work towards the voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees to areas considered safe.<br /><br /> Ken
