Kenya to shut down refugee camp

**An operation to close down Kenya’s largest camp for people forced to flee their homes during post-election ethnic violence in 2008 is due to start.**The camp, in the western town of Eldoret, which saw bitter fighting has been home to more than 2,000 people left homeless by the violence.

The government is reportedly offering each family 35,000 shillings (£290; $460) and transport home.

But some camp residents say their homes are still too dangerous to return to.

The government has ordered the rest of Kenya’s camps for internally displaced people to close within two weeks.

Some 1,500 people died and and at least 300,000 were left homeless after a disputed presidential election result in December 2007 led to weeks of ethnic violence.