The man in charge of processing hundreds of thousands of asylum applications in Kenya says sexual minorities have no special rights on his watch, heightening anxiety among LGBTQ+ asylum seekers that their claims may be lost in limbo. Kenya is one of Africa’s biggest hosts of refugees, with more than 770,000 people seeking or having asylum. Of those, more than a quarter are waiting for their status to be determined, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency, the UNHCR. While the government said it does not have a figure for the number of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, the U.N. estimated in 2021 that Kenya was sheltering 1,000 LGBTQ+ refugees.