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The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) makes strides towards solutions for refugees in the Horn of Africa
news UNHCR Website, 25 Sep 2019 (5 years ago )UNHCR welcomes the outcome of inter-ministerial stocktaking on the Nairobi Declaration and Action Plan on Durable Solutions by the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last week. The meeting convened humanitarian and development partners who co... -
For these women, an age-old way of life is ending in the Horn of Africa
news National Geographic that features UNHCR, 29 Jun 2020 (4 years ago )BURAO, SOMALILANDSo many died at once “it was like they were poisoned,” said Rahma Hassan Mahmoud, a herder in Somaliland, of the catastrophe that befell her 300 goats and sheep and 20 camels. After the last camel died, she and her family lived off milk from their neighbors, but with everyone else’s... -
Human and child rights advocates benefit from online course on ending child statelessness
news By Caroline Opile in Nairobi, Kenya | 12 February 2021, 21 Feb 2021 (3 years ago )UNHCR teams up with the African Committee on Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child to help eradicate childhood statelessness through an online course. -
UNHCR Livelihood Projects helping Yemeni refugees make a decent living in Somalia
news UNHCR Somalia, 02 Oct 2017 (7 years ago )Mustafa Ahmed Abubakar’s life was on track. He had a decent job and was looking into to settling down. And then the fighting broke out. “I had no plans to flee my country but my parents wanted to leave and asked me to accompany them. I decided to go along because my dad was not well.” Says the 2... -
UNHCR participates in Somaliland Mixed Migration Task Force TOR Workshop
news By Caroline Opile UNHCR Somalia, 14 Sep 2018 (6 years ago )A two day workshop on mixed migration was held on 12 and 13 September in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The workshop brought together different government ministries, NGOs and international organisations in Somaliland that play a role in addressing mixed migration. The objective of the forum was to update... -
#WomenHumanitarians – Martha Kow-Donkor - World Humanitarian Day
news UNHCR, 19 Aug 2019 (5 years ago )Martha Kow-Donkor knows exactly how it feels to be a refugee. At the height of a major civil war in the early 90s, she fled her native Liberia for Tabou, Côte d'Ivoire. For close to eight years she lived in exile before spontaneously returning back home to Liberia in 1998. “My passion for hu...