Oliver Bakewell, Research & Evidence Facility Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic overlays a new form of disaster on the already complex array of chronic and periodic crises that beset the people of the Horn of Africa. It has had an immediate effect on human mobility across the world and the region. This paper will explore the nature of pandemic’s impact on mobility compared to the impact of other crises. Most other
Kenya and Somalia present an interesting and often delicate case study of circular refugee movements. Spurred by limited data and analysis, circular refugee returns between the neighbouring countries became the focus of our rapid review
Farah Manji Many Somali refugees fled to Kenya following their country’s civil war in the 1990s and during the famine of 2011. At the time of writing, the number of registered Somali refugees and asylum seekers in Kenya stood at over 265,000, the vast majority of whom reside in Dadaab (UNHCR, 2020a). In December 2014, a voluntary repatriation programme (VRP) for Somalis in Kenya was established under a tripartite agreement
In this video, Cate Osborn from the Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat (ReDSS) talks about key findings and recommendations from their 2019 research
Louisa Brain, Hassan Adow, Jama Musse Jama, Farah Manji, Michael Owiso, Fekadu Adugna Tufa, Mahad Wasuge The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID‐19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and the first cases in the Horn of Africa (HoA) were confirmed later that month. However, even before the virus reached the region its wider effects were being felt (Lawler 2020). In June 2020 as the crisis expands, and Africa confirms
By Nisar Majid and Laura Hammond, with Nauja Kleist, Khalif Abdirahman and Guhad Adan[1]*
By Rashid Abdi and Laura HammondPublished in the East African 29 February – 6 March 2020
Laura Hammond, Caitlin Sturridge, Kalyango Ronald Sebba, Michael Owiso, Mohamed Mahdi, Farah Manji, and Abdinasir Ali Osman Since 2017, countries in the Horn of Africa have been developing a coordinated and comprehensive, ‘whole of society’ approach to supporting areas affected by refugee displacement. This process has benefited from the soft political power of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which has brought heads of state, ministers, and technical staff together
Jessica Gregson This paper builds on an earlier detailed review completed by the Research and Evidence Facility (REF) of the EU Trust Fund for Africa (Horn of Africa Window) in 2017. It provides an overview of new literature related to migration in the Horn of Africa published since that earlier review was released, that is, between 2017 and 2019 (REF, 2017a). It is a testament to the huge academic and
Laura Hammond, Caitlin Sturridge, Kalyango Ronald Sebba, Michael Owiso, Mohamed Mahdi, Farah Manji, and Abdinasir Ali Osman In support of the delivery of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) in the Horn of Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has been playing a central role. IGAD took the lead in bringing together its 7 members’ heads of state in March 2017 to agree a Comprehensive Approach to Durable Solutions