Displacement and Asylum

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – At least 200,000 people – including at least 100,000 children have been forced to flee their homes in the town of Beledweyne following heavy rains which continue to fall across Hiraan and Bakool regions of Central Somalia Save the Children teams on the ground are reporting whole …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – At least 6,000 families have been displaced in Badale in southern Somalia’s Bay region after flash floods caused by torrential rain hit the town. Fadumo Moalim Abdirahman, from Horsed neighborhood, said she spent the whole night of 20 October in her house, submerged in water. Youth from …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The UN refugee agency said Tuesday more than 4,800 Somali refugees have so far returned home from Yemen since it started an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) program in 2017. The UNHCR said 37 organized departures have now taken place from Yemen to Somalia since the ASR program …

BELET WEYNE (SoOHA) – 3 more people have died due to flooding as hundreds of people continue to migrate to higher grounds. Heavy rains in the past weeks have seen atlas 9 people killed and several others unaccounted for. On Monday, 6 people reportedly died when their boat capsized. And some …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – At least 72,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Belet Weyne town and other surrounding villages in central Somalia as Shabelle River levels continue to rise, the UN humanitarian agency said on Tuesday. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it has teamed …

GENEVA (SoOHA) – The Somali interior minister Abdi Mohamed Sabriye and his delegation in Geneva, Switzerland will attend the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees conference. This is the 70th meeting, which brought together by member states of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Minister Sabriye represents Somalia, and as …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has warned of a growing influx of Somalis that are seeking refuge in Ethiopia amid worsening drought and security woes. “With already poor security and now a worsening drought, more than 5,000 Somalis have sought refuge in Ethiopia so far this year …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Families from IDP camps in Mogadishu are being treated for free by a group of 10 local medical practitioners, who formed a group to visit people’s homes in IDP camps across the city. Abdulkadir Sheikh Hassan, the chairperson of the volunteers, said they have been treating 200 …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on Tuesday called on donors to increase emergency humanitarian assistance to help avert further displacements in Somalia. A deadly combination of drought, conflict, and insecurity has forced more than 250,000 people in the first seven months of 2019 to leave their homes, a …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Over a quarter-million Somalis have been displaced largely due to drought and conflict in Somalia in the January-July period of this year, the UN humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday. Most of the conflict-related displacement occurred in Lower Shabelle region where armed operations by Somali security forces backed by …