Malala says Somali refugee girls' future at risk if Kenya sends them home

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By Katy Migiro DADAAB, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somali schoolgirls risk losing out on education and becoming child brides if they are forced to leave the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya and move to their war-torn country where there are not enough schools, Malala Yousafzai said on Tuesday. The Pakistani teenage education activist, who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban in 2012, spent her 19th birthday in Dadaab camp, which Kenya wants to close, citing security concerns. "The problem is that there aren't enough schools in Somalia," Yousafzai told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, sitting in a classroom in one of Dadaab's seven secondary schools.

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