DISPLACEMENT AND ASYLUM

ASMARA (SOHA) – The Special Envoy for the Somali refugee situation, Ambassador Mohamed Abdi Affey, led a high-level delegation in Eritrea accompanied by the Deputy Director of Division of International Protection, Ms. Shahrzad Tadjbakhsh and the Head of the Legal and Policy Unit of the Regional Bureau of Africa (RBA), …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The United Nations Deputy Special Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Peter de Clercq Told the VOA Somali service says the fighting between Somaliland and Puntland displaced thousands of people in Tukaraq. In an interview with VOA Somali, The United Nations Deputy Special Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Peter de Clercq …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somali officials say the United States has deported 84 Somalis, including four women, back to their home country. Two planes carrying the Somalis arrived at Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport on Friday. A spokesman for Somalia’s Security Ministry, Abdulaziz Ali Ibrahim, told VOA’s Somali service the deportees …

LONDON (SOHA) – A teenage girl forced to leave her family behind and flee Somalia aged just 14 after being threatened by terrorists recounted her treacherous journey to the UK in a heartbreaking documentary. Fearing for her life after she was accused by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab of touching …

BRUSSEL (SOHA) – The European Union has announced Sh3.9 billion humanitarian aid for refugees in Kenya and Uganda. Christos Stylianides, the Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, said Kenya will get Sh1.1 billion and Uganda Sh2.8 billion, since it has the highest number of refugees in Africa. The aid to Kenya is …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – Kenya will invest in vocational training for refugees to enhance their integration in the host country through employment or entrepreneurship, senior officials said Wednesday during an event to mark the World Refugee Day. Fred Matiang’i, Cabinet Secretary for Interior, said Kenya will reach out to multilateral partners …

DADAAB (SOHA) – At least 254,811 Somali refugees from Dadaab camp in Garissa have been voluntarily repatriated since 2013, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has said. The repatriation started after a tripartite agreement between Kenya, the Somalia government and the UNHCR in November 2013. Speaking during Refugee …

DADAAB (SOHA) – The total closure of three extensive refugee camps in Dadaab may not happen soon as numbers of those returning to their countries of origin voluntary have reduced while others have vowed never to return to their homes. While the number of refugees has tremendously reduced from 466,683 …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – Fardowsa Adow Mohamed has not known any other home apart from Hagadera refugee camp since she arrived from Somalia where she was born. She came to Kenya at the age of two due to inter-clan skirmishes in Somalia. As she joins millions of refugees around the globe …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somalia is facing a severe humanitarian crisis triggered by multiple natural disasters and long term political instability which are having a crippling effect on the country’s economy. Recovery efforts have not yet provided state building opportunities due to the fragile institutions in place and the rapidly changing …