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Refugees and Asylum-seekers in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region

IDPs in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region

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Refugees and Asylum-seekers in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region JSON 
5,371,650
Last updated 13 Aug 2023
Source - UNHCR, Government, MINEMA, COR, IPP, Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Uganda 
Refugees and Asylum-seekers in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region - Breakdown by country JSON 
Location name Source Data date Population
Burundi UNHCR, Government 31 Jul 2023
  1.5% 		80,165
Djibouti UNHCR 31 Jul 2023
  0.6% 		30,982
Eritrea UNHCR 30 Jun 2023
  0.0% 		118
Ethiopia UNHCR, Government 10 Aug 2023
  18.0% 		964,599
Kenya UNHCR, Government 31 Mar 2023
  11.0% 		588,724
Rwanda UNHCR, Government, MINEMA 30 Jun 2023
  2.4% 		127,619
Somalia UNHCR 30 Jun 2023
  0.7% 		35,996
South Sudan UNHCR, Government 13 Aug 2023
  6.9% 		368,464
Sudan UNHCR, COR, IPP 2 Aug 2023
  24.8% 		1,331,817
Tanzania (United Republic of) UNHCR, Government 30 Jun 2023
  4.8% 		255,459
Uganda Office of the Prime Minister, UNHCR, Government of Uganda 31 Jul 2023
  29.4% 		1,578,661

IDP in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region JSON 
12,377,557
Last updated 31 Jul 2023
Source - SNBS - Somalia National Bureau of Statistics, IOM, OCHA, Humanitarian Needs Overview 
IDP in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region - Breakdown by country JSON 
Location name Source Data date Population
Burundi IOM 31 Jul 2023
  0.6% 		76,987
Ethiopia IOM 31 May 2023
  25.7% 		3,143,255
Somalia SNBS - Somalia National Bureau of Statistics 28 Feb 2022
  24.3% 		2,967,500
South Sudan IOM, OCHA 30 Jun 2023
  18.5% 		2,257,672
Sudan Humanitarian Needs Overview 31 Jan 2023
  30.9% 		3,779,487

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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.
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