DISPLACEMENT AND ASYLUM

ADDIS ABABA (SOHA) – The ICRC and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) jointly distributed emergency relief assistance on February 21-22 to people displaced by ethnic violence in Eastern Ethiopia. Some 690 families displaced from different areas of East Hararghe Zone, Oromia region, and sheltered in Kore and Ali-Ethiopia localities …

LAAS AANOOD (SOHA) – Over 20 female university students in Las-Anod town have launched a campaign to help displaced families in Sool region. 150 families displaced by clan conflicts in the region, who have been living without basic needs, have now received food and other aid for the first time …

 DADAAB (SOHA) – A small scale farming initiative supported by a local NGO in Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya is gradually improving the lives of refugees by developing a sustainable source of basic food and income. A group of 82 families in the refugee camp has ventured into farming …

KISMAYO (SOHA) – Access to health care services including maternity is now accessible for families living in a low-income part of Kismayo in southern Somalia, following the opening of a new health centre. Around 1,500 families who returned from Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya have settled in Midnimo neighbourhood, which …

ADDIS ABABA (SOHA) – In his address at the 32nd Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union, the President of Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo raised the timely need for progressive refugee laws and policies across the continent. “Even as we …

MARKO (SOHA) – Hundreds of families who have left villages in southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region in the past two weeks because of drought are camping on the outskirts of Mogadishu without access to any services. The assistant chief of Garasbaley, Abdullahi Abdi Mohamud, told Radio Ergo that people had …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – Countries have been challenged to adopt education as a means of managing migration and displacement and offering those in need a second chance. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Assistant Director General for Education Ms.Stefania Gianini said that education is a human right and a …

JOWHAR(SOHA) – About 1,000 families displaced by clan clashes in Somalia’s Hirshabelle state are facing hunger and lack of access to basic services. Local officials said the families uprooted from their homes are now camping in Elbaraf town with little humanitarian assistance. Deadly clan clashes over pasture and water resources …

DADAAB (SOHA) – After four years of hard work in secondary school, Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan, a teenage Somali refugee in northern Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, faces an uncertain future as the results of his exams were declared null and void over alleged cheating. Ahmed sat for his Kenya Certificate of …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Mayor of Mogadishu and the governor of Banadir Region honorable Abdirahman Omar Osman (Eng. Yarisow) has said that the internally displaced people`s policy will focus on a process aimed at resettling those internally displaced persons and creating a better life for them that will allow them to …