Rights group: Kenya forcing refugees to war-torn Somalia

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan government is coercing refugees to quit the world's largest refugee camp and return to Somalia where they risk getting killed or forcibly recruited into the Islamic extremist group, al-Shabab, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Kenyan government officials are telling them they must leave by the end of the month (November) or they will be forced to leave without any assistance, said Michelle Kagari, Amnesty International's deputy director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes.

"Kenya continues to work toward the safe and dignified repatriation of refugees from the Dadaab camp," Kenyatta told U.S. President Barack Obama in a telephone conversation in September according to Kenyatta's press office.