Today, there are 714,390 Somali refugees and asylum seekers living in neighboring countries like Kenya (308,367), Ethiopia (276,412), Uganda (69,533) and Yemen (46,750). More than half a million Somali children are severely malnourished. More than 3.8 million people are displaced in Somalia and some 6.7 million people are struggling to meet their food needs. Here are six facts you need to know about the Somalia refugee crisis, why people are fleeing their homes, and what UNHCR is doing to protect and support displaced people across Somalia.įACT: 80 percent of Somali refugees are living in neighboring countries: Many of the Somalis fleeing are women, children In February 2023, clashes around the city of Laascaanood in Somalia caused increasing internal displacement, with at least 150,000 people forced to flee within Somalia, and nearly 100,000 Somali refugees fleeing to Ethiopia, arriving in remote, extremely isolated and drought-affected areas. Over the last 30 years, hundreds of thousands of people have fled Somalia due to political instability and a dangerous civil war that broke out in the 1990s. The Somali refugee crisis is one of the most challenging mass displacement situations in the world.
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