DISPLACEMENT AND ASYLUM

NAIROBI —  A new report by the UN migration agency warns that the number of migrants dying in the East and Horn of Africa (EHoA) region has increased this year compared to 2020. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said many deaths and disappearances occurred along the eastern migratory route …

SANAA — Around 190,000 migrants in war-torn Yemen are in “dire” need of assistance, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Saturday. “More than 4 million people who have fled their homes in search of safety, and some 190,000 migrants from the Horn of Africa, are in dire need of …

MOGADISHU — UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is scaling up assistance to thousands of people displaced by severe drought in Somalia following three consecutive failed rainy seasons that have decimated crops and livestock. People’s coping mechanisms have been eroded, forcing thousands to flee their homes in search of humanitarian assistance …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdisaid Muse Ali, had a phone conversation about the Somali students who fled from the war in Ukraine, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó. The Foreign Ministry of Somalia on Tuesday instructed Somalis stranded in Ukraine to …

HARGEISA — The Somaliland National Displacement and Refugee Agency (NDRA), with the support of the Joint Initiative of the European Union (EU)- International Organization for Migration (IOM), provided cash grants of nearly $120,000 to 24 Somali youth who returned from Libya. The Chairman of NDRA, Abdikarim Mohamed Hinnif, along with …

MOGADISHU — The number of people displaced by the current drought in Somalia doubled in January from 245,000 to 554,500, the UN indicated on Friday. Most of the displaced people have fled from the Galgadud, Mudug, and Bay regions, according to an infographic by the UN Office for the Coordination …

MOGADISHU —  A woman and her two children died of hunger and thirst in South-Western Somalia(SWS), as the local administration on Sunday feared more deaths due to the ongoing drought in the Bakool province. Rabdhure District Commissioner Mohamed Kheyr Salaad told local media that the district is severely affected by …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s escalating drought is creating a massive displacement crisis. 245,000 people have already fled their homes, with numbers projected to reach up to 1.4 million as the drought worsens. “Somalia’s drought is dangerously escalating following three failed rainy seasons and some of the lowest rainfall in 40 years,” …

MOGADISHU — Deteriorating drought conditions in Somalia could displace over 1 million people by April if urgent action is not taken, the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) latest Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) analysis shows. The widespread drought in the Horn of Africa has severely impacted Somalia the most, prompting the government to …

MOGADISHU —  Many Somali people still remember how, when civil war gripped their own country, an influx of refugees fled to countries like Yemen and Syria, where they stayed several years until Somalia got back on track its current, slow-moving path towards peace. Those who fled to Yemen were not …