Loading Total Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Kenya
Country of origin | Source | Data date | Population | |
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Somalia | UNHCR | 31 Mar 2023 | 55.0% | 281,319 |
South Sudan | UNHCR | 31 Mar 2023 | 30.8% | 157,402 |
Dem. Rep. of the Congo | UNHCR | 31 Mar 2023 | 6.6% | 33,766 |
Ethiopia | UNHCR | 31 Mar 2023 | 4.3% | 21,847 |
Burundi | UNHCR | 31 Mar 2023 | 1.6% | 8,392 |
Sudan | UNHCR | 31 Mar 2023 | 1.1% | 5,756 |
Others | UNHCR | 31 Mar 2023 | 0.4% | 2,185 |
Uganda | UNHCR | 31 Mar 2023 | 0.2% | 800 |
Country of origin | Source | Data date | Population | |
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Dem. Rep. of the Congo | UNHCR, Government | 31 Mar 2023 | 28.0% | 21,653 |
Burundi | UNHCR, Government | 31 Mar 2023 | 21.3% | 16,434 |
Somalia | UNHCR, Government | 31 Mar 2023 | 19.1% | 14,761 |
Ethiopia | UNHCR, Government | 31 Mar 2023 | 15.6% | 12,077 |
Sudan | UNHCR, Government | 31 Mar 2023 | 6.2% | 4,822 |
Others | UNHCR, Government | 31 Mar 2023 | 5.6% | 4,339 |
Uganda | UNHCR, Government | 31 Mar 2023 | 4.0% | 3,056 |
South Sudan | UNHCR, Government | 31 Mar 2023 | 0.1% | 115 |
RAVES PROJECT - KENYA LAUNCH: Official launch of the Refugee Agricultural Value chains for Economic Self-reliance (RAVES) Programme. FAO with funding from the IKEA Foundation and in collaboration with the Turkana County Government, UNHCR, WFP, IFC, INSTA Products, Egerton University and other stakeholders has initiated a project aimed at enabling farmers from Loima and Turkana West Sub-Counties of Turkana County as well as refugees in Kalobeyei settlement to produce groundnut for INSTA Products in a Public Private Partnership. The four-year project is targeting 1,500 farmers, of which 30 percent are refugees, farming on approximately 750 acres and ultimately delivering 1,200 tons of Groundnuts per year. The project is expected to bring in KES 96 million annually to Turkana County and spur the development of a groundnut industry in the County. | |
29 Apr 2021 | |
UNHCR in partnership with Oracle launched the Oracle Workforce Development program, which aims to impart digital skills training with global certifications. Five Persons of Concern (PoC (3 females, 2 males) from urban areas and eight PoC (3 females, 5 males) from Kakuma were shortlisted for the training after a competitive process. The trainees will be upskilled in Java Fundamental and Programming and later be linked to job opportunities. | |
30 Sep 2020 | |
PoC who can no longer support themselves in urban areas continued to request for assistance to relocate to the camps. UNHCR and the Refugee Affairs Secretariat (RAS) worked on resuming PoC’s relocation to the camps. This had been suspended towards the end of August due to a high COVID-19 positivity rate among PoC that had been tested before travel. | |
30 Sep 2020 | |
RAS and UNHCR agreed to set up a working group to start a remote interviewing pilot for refugee status determination. Remote interviewing will increase the number of interviews conducted. | |
30 Sep 2020 | |
In August, UNHCR and implementing partners in Kakuma distributed 130,000 reusable facemasks donated by the Government of the United States. | |
30 Sep 2020 |
Self-reliance and social networks: explaining refugees’ reluctance to relocate from Kakuma to Kalobeyei | |
Self-reliance and social networks: explaining refugees’ reluctance to relocate from Kakuma to Kalobeyei | |
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Date of Funding Data | 29 December 2022 (5 months ago) |
Highlighting statelessness in the 12 Member States of the ICGLR, and what is being done to eradicate it. Media coverage, testimonies of stateless persons, reports on the issue and all documents pertaining to the Brazzaville Declaration process can be consulted in English, French, Portuguese and Arabic.
The on-going conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have caused and continue to cause internal and external displacement of populations. In 2017, some 100,000 Congolese fled to neighbouring countries as refugees, due to widespread militia activities, unrest and violence, joining the 585,000 already in exile. The security conditions in DRC, especially in the eastern and central parts have continued to worsen since the beginning of 2018. Because of this, the Congolese refugee population is now among the ten largest in the world. Nearly 55 per cent are children, many crossing borders unaccompanied or separated. Existing camps and sites in many asylum countries are saturated, and available basic services are stretched to the limit. The situation requires support, adequate resources and collaboration so that effective protection and assistance can be delivered efficiently to Congolese refugees.
In September 2019, with the aim of bringing decision making closer to the point of delivery, UNHCR opened its Regional Bureau for the East, Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Region (EHAGL). It is located in Nairobi, Kenya and covers 11 operations: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Within the EHAGL region, two situations are managed by the Bureau: the South Sudan Regional Refugee Situation and the Burundi Regional Refugee Situation. The Bureau has accountability for strategic decision-making, regional prioritization, oversight of integrity issues, and quality assurance, and possesses the technical capacity to support country operations in a wide range of sectors such as education, child protection, economic inclusion and durable solutions.
As the protracted emergency enters its sixth year, the South Sudan situation remains the largest refugee situation on the African continent. There are over 2.2 million refugees in Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a further 1.8 million people displaced internally in South Sudan. The situation continues to be characterized as a children’s crisis with children constituting over 65 percent of the refugee population.
Somalia is at the heart of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world today. Twenty years of conflict and waves of drought have uprooted a quarter of the country’s 7.5 million people. As the region faces its most severe drought in 60 years, the Somali exodus is growing fast. The refugees urgently need medical aid and high-protein, high-energy food. They also need clean water, shelter and basic services in the camps.
Please contact the following focal points
Type of Inquiry | Contact |
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Data management | Alan Mwika mwika@unhcr.org |
Information Management | Vinoraj Ratnaraj RATNARAJ@unhcr.org |