During 2019, some 220,000 people were granted international protection in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region (EHAGL), bringing the total number of refugees and asylum-seekers to 4.7 million. The region hosts some 67 per cent of the refugees on the African continent and 20 per cent of the global refugee population. The largest number of refugees and asylum-seekers in the region are from South Sudan, with significant numbers also from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. Governments have generally continued to maintain open-door asylum policies and embraced the Global Compact on Refugees by adopting progressive national refugee frameworks and promoting the inclusion of refugees into national health, education and social protection systems.
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19 May 2020 (2 years ago)
/ Burundi - Refugees
/ Eritrea - Refugees
/ Ethiopia - Refugees
/ Somalia - Refugees
/ Sudan - Refugees
/ Rwanda - Refugees
/ Tanzania (Democratic Republic of) - Refugees
/ South Sudan - Refugees
/ Somalia - IDPs
/ South Sudan - IDPs
/ Burundi - Asylum-Seekers
/ Somalia - Asylum-Seekers
/ Burundi - IDPs
/ Ethiopia - IDPs
/ Kenya - Refugees
/ Djibouti - Refugees
/ Djibouti - Asylum-Seekers
/ Eritrea - Asylum-Seekers
/ Ethiopia - Asylum-Seekers
/ Kenya - Asylum-Seekers
/ Sudan - Asylum-Seekers
/ Rwanda - Asylum-Seekers
/ Djibouti - IDPs
/ Eritrea - IDPs
/ Kenya - IDPs
/ Sudan - IDPs
/ Rwanda - IDPs
