Save Somali Refugee Children from Malnutrition

Bonkay may seem a bit old to be going to school but, like her classmates, the 23-year-old mother and refugee missed out on a proper education while growing up in her village in central Somalia's Bay region. Now, Bonkay and her classmates are catching up on their schooling in a refugee camp located in Ethiopia, thanks to the...

SHEDDER REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia, November 1 (UNHCR) – Seventeen-year-old Hodan's eyes sparkle with joy as she clutches her new English-Somali dictionary – a congratulatory gift from UNHCR on passing a national high school exam. She's one of 35 teenage refugee girls in Shedder and Awbare camps, near Jijiga in...

A year after the onset of the Somalia famine, Yusef Kabey can laugh at the pain he endured. He has regained the body weight he lost over the past year. He can walk, eat and sleep. "I've come back from the dead," says the 22-year-old. "Now I want to have a future and take full advantage of my life. I'm even handsome." A year...

The UN Refugee Agency says that growing numbers of displaced Somalis have been citing difficulty in providing for themselves as the main reason for fleeing their homes. Most of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Somalis have fled to escape insecurity, including 146,000 so far this year. But UNHCR spokesman Adrian...

This year is the 20th anniversary of the world's biggest refugee camp, Dadaab in north-eastern Kenya. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which manages the Dadaab complex, set up the first camps there between October 1991 and June 1992. This followed a civil war in Somalia that in 1991 had culminated in the fall...

Lives hang in the balance as Somalia's Al Shabaab militia has revoked permission for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and other UN aid organizations to work in areas controlled by the group. "This comes at the time of a dire humanitarian crisis in southern and central parts of Somalia," UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic told...

Somali children are the biggest victims of the refugee crisis in the Horn of Africa, according to the latest profiling data collected by UNHCR in Ethiopia. The most recent demographic breakdown of the Somali influx into Ethiopia shows that children under the age of 18 are the largest age group among refugees....

In the last three months alone, 30,000 children have died from the effects of the famine and drought in the Horn of Africa. In light of the ongoing crisis, The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has issued an emergency public service announcement (PSA) for the Horn of Africa: Click here to view the...

A UNHCR-chartered aircraft carrying emergency aid for thousands of displaced people landed on Monday, August 8th in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. It was the first UNHCR aid airlift to the beleaguered city in five years. The Ilyushin IL-62 cargo plane, carrying more than 31 tons of shelter material and some 2,500...