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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.
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.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a desolate makeshift camp on the fringes of Somalia's capital, tens of thousands of internally displaced people sit under the baking sun not sure if they can have access to food rations and medication following U.S. President Donald Trump's decree to freeze most of his country's foreign aid.
Bokolmayo hosts the highest number of refugees in Ethiopia—nearly 200,000. These refugees are Somalis who fled the civil war in Somalia around early 2009. [1] There are five refugee camps in the Liben zone, three of which are found in Bokolmayo. [2] These refugee camps include: Bokolmayo refugee camp; Malkadida refugee camp; Kobe refugee camp
Due to reports of a new wave of Somali refugees reaching Hart Sheik in late 2006, the Ethiopian Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs and the UNHCR together opened a new refugee camp at Awbare on 13 July 2007. As of June 2012, 13,553 individuals were resident at the camp, with a further 11,639 at the Sheder camp. [2]
Around 2012, refugee camps were established by the United Nations Humanitarian Fund for Somalia, and as of April 2019, 600 families and 4,200 people are living there. [4] In 2013, a large area of Sanaag was flooded during the spring rainy season, but Baraakta Qol was less affected. [5]
As of July 2020, the population of Hagadera camp was 100,000, with over 95% of the refugees hailing from Somalia.A large part of the residents in the old camps (Ifo, Dagahaley, Hagadera) arrived in Dadaab in the 1990s and had children and grandchildren born in the camps.