Operation Highlights
Somalia is the country generating the third highest number of refugees in the world, after Afghanistan and Iraq.
UNHCR leads protection and emergency relief interventions targeting 700,000 IDPs out of a total IDP population estimated at 1.1 million and over 2,300 refugees in Somalia.
As at 17th April 2013, there were 1,037,554 Somali refugees in the region, mainly hosted in Kenya, Yemen, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Tanzania and Uganda and almost 1.1 million Somalis internally displaced within the country, settled mainly in the South-Central region.
10,755 Somalis have so far sought refuge in neighboring countries in 2013. In the month of April, 2,000 movements were reported in different areas in Somalia due to insecurity, floods, IDP evictions as well as cross-border movements.