DISPLACEMENT AND ASYLUM

SANA’A (SoOHA)  – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have helped 5,087 Somali refugees return home from Yemen since 2017. In this latest departure, a boat carrying 145 Somali refugees left the Port of Aden today and will arrive at the Port …

KISMAYO (SoOHA) – Halima Derow Mohamud fled her home on 23 November when flash floods caused by torrential rains hit her home in Dhobley town in southern Somalia’s Jubbaland state. Her five-room house was awash with water. Halima carried some mattresses and salvaged some food as she and her family …

GENEVA (SoOHA) – Somalia’s ratification of a key convention to protect internally displaced people in Africa is a landmark achievement for the country and the African continent, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said today. The African Union (AU) Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – At least 273,000 people had to flee severe flooding of the Shabelle River in Somalia, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in a report on Friday, Anadolu reports. Calling for urgent humanitarian aid, the report said residents of the worst-affected region of Beledweyne were “sheltering under trees or in emergency tents …

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 …