DISPLACEMENT AND ASYLUM

GARISSA — Nearly 20,000 Kenyans who were registered as refugees have sued the government seeking to be removed from the database and issued national identity cards. The 14,762 people from Garissa County and 4,952 from Wajir were listed as refugees as children or were put in the database in order …

MOGADISHU —  The Director General of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Adv. Hersi Haji Olosow, received today in his office at the Ministry the credentials of the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Somalia, Mr. Magatte Guisse. During the meeting, …

ADDIS ABABA —  Some 3,720 refugees presently residing in Ethiopia have received COVID-19 jabs, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said. “Some 3,720 refugees, who meet the government’s prioritization criteria, were vaccinated against COVID-19,” the UN refugee agency said in its latest situation update issued on Tuesday. …

KAMPALA — At least 10 Somali refugees have died from starvation and COVID-19 in the last two weeks because they could not get help from Uganda’s government or their fellow nationals due to a lockdown, a community group said Monday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Khalis Muhammad, vice chairman of the …

Thousands of Somalis who fled persecution and civil war in the Horn of Africa country have benefitted from resettlement programmes in third countries like the US. Muhidin Libah is one of them. He told UN News how he set up the Somali Bantu Community Association in Lewiston, Maine, to both …

MOGADISHU — Three decades of violence have left 2.9 million of Somalia’s citizens internally displaced, but the country is also home to 25,000 refugees, including 6,800 Yemenis and over 700 Syrians. Faith Kasina of the U.N.’s refugee agency, UNHCR, has praised Somalia’s open-door policy for refugees, which allows them to …

NAIROBI — Hundreds of thousands of refugees in Northern Kenya’s Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps are frightened about their future after being told by the government that they must return to their homes by next year, which they had fled some years ago due to terrorist attacks and calamities such as …

JOWHAR — Government figures indicate over 45,000 people have been affected by the heavy flooding that hit the Jowhar district of southern Somalia on 10 May 2021.The climate appears to be changing and the country is now recording more wet and dry weather events, which are becoming ever more difficult …

MOGADISHU — Hundreds of people have been displaced & large farmlands of newly sown crops destroyed by floods after a Shabelle river burst its banks in Baarey & Moyko villages near Jowhar officials said, as the Food and Agricultural Organizataion warned rising water levels along the Juba and Shabelle Rivers …

MOGADISHU — More than 250,000 people have been displaced in the past two weeks in violence and generalized insecurity in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and its environs, the United Nations humanitarian agency has said. The displacement took place in Banadir, Berdale and Badweyn, including nearly 200,000 in Mogadishu, in Banadir …