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Badbaado is a refugee camp located outside of Mogadishu, Somalia. It formed as a result of the 2011 East Africa drought and famine, and now houses roughly 30,000 refugees. [1] Food aid is available for refugees there, but its supply has been tenuous due to the policies of al-Shabab. [2]
Dadaab (Somali: Dhadhaab) is a semi-arid town in Garissa County, Kenya.It is the site of a UNHCR base hosting 302,805 registered refugees and asylum seekers as of 31 October 2023, [1] in four camps (Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo, and Ifo 2), [2] making it one of the largest in the world behind Kutupalong refugee camp.
In 2013, UNHCR, the governments of Kenya and Somalia signed a tripartite agreement facilitating the repatriation of Somali refugees at the Dadaab camp. In March 2021 the Kenyan government issued an ultimatum to UNHCR to close Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps, which house over 400,000 mostly Somali refugees. Amid the deteriorating relationship ...
In October 2011, Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted, who had been working on a demining project with the Danish Refugee Council, were kidnapped by Somali pirates in Galkayo. [1] Attempts by the Council to enlist local Somali elders and traditional leaders to assist in freeing the hostages were unsuccessful, and the pirates refused an offer ...
Dadaab refugee camps (Ifo, Ifo II, Dagahaley, Hagadera, and Kambioos) in North Eastern Kenya, established in 1991 and now hosting more than 330,000 refugees from Somalia. [49] Dzaleka camp in the Dowa District of Malawi is home to 34,000 refugees from Burundi, the DRC and Rwanda. [50]
Aw-barre Refugee camp is located in the Fafan Zone of the Somali Region of Ethiopia. It was established in 2007 by the Ethiopian Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to accommodate Somali refugees seeking international protection and asylum in Ethiopia. [1] [2] [3]
Ifo refugee camp is a home to refugees from ten countries namely Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, DRC, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Eritrea. [4] [5] As of 1 August 2015, Ifo refugee camp had a population of 84181 refugees with 41992 as male and 42189 were female. [4] In 2011, Ifo II refugee camp was constructed to reduce on ...
Darfur refugee camp in Chad, 2005. The first modern definition of an international refugee status came with the League of Nations in 1921 from the Commission for Refugees. Following World War II and in response to the large numbers of people fleeing Eastern Europe, the United Nations passed the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.