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Refugees from Somalia

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Total Refugees from Somalia JSON 
700,910
Source - UNHCR, Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Uganda 
Households*
109,375
Last updated 31 Jul 2023
* Household data may be unavailable for some locations.
Source - UNHCR, Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Uganda
Total Refugees from Somalia - Demography JSON 
Source - UNHCR, Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Uganda
Total Refugees from Somalia by Date JSON 
Refugees from Somalia JSON 
Location name Source Data date Population
Djibouti UNHCR 31 Jul 2023
  1.9% 		13,308
Ethiopia UNHCR 31 Jul 2023
  41.4% 		290,073
Kenya UNHCR 31 Mar 2023
  40.1% 		281,319
Uganda UNHCR, Government of Uganda, Office of the Prime Minister 31 Jul 2023
  9.9% 		69,614
Yemen UNHCR 1 May 2023
  6.6% 		46,596

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  Highlights
During 2019, some 220,000 people were granted international protection in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region (EHAGL), bringing the total number of refugees and asylum-seekers to 4.7 million. The region hosts some 67 per cent of the refugees on the African continent and 20 per cent of the global refugee population. The largest number of refugees and asylum-seekers in the region are from South Sudan, with significant numbers also from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. Governments have generally continued to maintain open-door asylum policies and embraced the Global Compact on Refugees by adopting progressive national refugee frameworks and promoting the inclusion of refugees into national health, education and social protection systems.
19 May 2020
Internal displacement is also a phenomenon in countries in the EHAGL region and faced by several countries on a large scale. Over 8 million people are currently internally displaced. Efforts are underway to strengthen UNHCR’s role in inter-agency IDP responses in line with the 2019 IDP policy and the High Commissioner’s new Initiative on Internal Displacement which includes Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan. Recent opportunities to pursue solutions for IDPs in the region were bolstered by South Sudan’s accession and Ethiopia and Somalia’s ratification of the African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention).
19 May 2020
The first cases of Covid-19 in the EHAGL region were reported on 13 March and the situation continues to evolve. All 11 countries of the region have reported cases and local transmission. While there has been no large-scale outbreak amongst UNHCR’s populations of concern, the need for preparedness is urgent. UNHCR is working closely with governments, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Country Teams to promote the inclusion of refugees, IDPs, stateless people and others of concern in national preparedness and response measures – in particular in health, hygiene and sanitation programmes, as well as distance learning and emergency social safety nets.
19 May 2020
From January to June 2017 - 28,757 Somali refugees from Kenya were voluntarily repatriated to Somalia by UNHCR as part of its programme and benefited from an enhanced return package.
15 Sep 2017
In total, as of 28th Feb. 52,591 Somali refugees returned home since 8th December 2014, when UNHCR started supporting voluntary return of Somali refugees.
13 Mar 2017
As of 15th Feb. 49,376 Somali refugees from Kenya returned home since 8th December 2014 ( when Vol-rep started) out of which 10,062 were supported in 2017 alone
07 Mar 2017
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Human and child rights advocates benefit from online course on ending child statelessness

By Caroline Opile in Nairobi, Kenya | 12 February 2021, 21 Feb 2021

UNHCR teams up with the African Committee on Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child to help eradicate childhood statelessness through an online course. Read more

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For these women, an age-old way of life is ending in the Horn of Africa

National Geographic that features UNHCR, 29 Jun 2020

BURAO, SOMALILANDSo many died at once “it was like they were poisoned,” said Rahma Hassan Mahmoud, a herder in Somaliland, of the catastrophe that befell her 300 goats and sheep and 20 camels. After the last camel died, she and her family lived off milk from their neighbors, but with everyone else’s... Read more

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The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) makes strides towards solutions for refugees in the Horn of Africa

UNHCR Website, 25 Sep 2019

UNHCR welcomes the outcome of inter-ministerial stocktaking on the Nairobi Declaration and Action Plan on Durable Solutions by the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last week. The meeting convened humanitarian and development partners who co... Read more

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#WomenHumanitarians – Martha Kow-Donkor - World Humanitarian Day

UNHCR, 19 Aug 2019

Martha Kow-Donkor knows exactly how it feels to be a refugee. At the height of a major civil war in the early 90s, she fled her native Liberia for Tabou, Côte d'Ivoire. For close to eight years she lived in exile before spontaneously returning back home to Liberia in 1998. “My passion for hu... Read more

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UNHCR participates in Somaliland Mixed Migration Task Force TOR Workshop

By Caroline Opile UNHCR Somalia, 14 Sep 2018

A two day workshop on mixed migration was held on 12 and 13 September in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The workshop brought together different government ministries, NGOs and international organisations in Somaliland that play a role in addressing mixed migration. The objective of the forum was to update... Read more

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CCCM COVID-19 Contingency Plan
There are over 2,000 recorded IDP sites hosting 2.6 m displaced people across Somalia. People displaced to these informal sites are living in precarious conditions. The sites are overcrowded, lack dignified living conditions and enough access to basic services. An estimated 360,000 people in IDP sites are persons with various disabilities, 48 percent are women while five percent are elderly.
CCCM Operations Guidance for COVID
CCCM partners in Somalia play a critical role in administering site­‐level coordination which feeds up to the national level. As a result, it is imperative that CCCM partners are equipped with guidance in order to continue site-­‐level activities supporting displaced with the ongoing COVID-­‐ 19 pandemic.
CCCM Somalia Data Portal
Given the conflict, insecurity, drought, and floods an estimated 2.9 million people have been displaced in Somalia. The majority of people have self-settled in over 2,400+ sub-standard IDP sites in urban and peri-urban areas across the country. People displaced to these sites are living in precarious conditions and are not having their basic needs met due to inconsistent service provision or exclusion from accessing humanitarian support. 85% of the sites are informal settlements on private land and about 74% of them are in urban areas according to the Detailed Site Assessment (DSA) of the CCCM Cluster.
CCCM Somalia/REACH - 2021 Detailed Site Assessment (DSA)
The Detailed Site Assessment (DSA) was initiated in coordination with the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) cluster in order to provide the humanitarian community with up-to-date information on the location of IDP sites, the conditions and capacity of the sites, and an estimate of the severity of humanitarian needs of residents. Data collection for the current round of the DSA took place from November 10th to December 20th, 2021 and assessed 2,986 IDP sites in 47 districts across Somalia and Somaliland.
Garowe Service Mapping February-March 2018
Garowe 3 Ws (site level)
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