MOGADISHU, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Friday that Somalia is hosting 41,765 registered refugees and asylum seekers as of December 2024.

In a desolate makeshift camp on the fringes of Somalia’s capital, tens of thousands of internally displaced people sit under ...

BALIDHIDIN, Somalia — The dead Islamic State fighter was sprawled out on the ridge, bloodstains darkening in the sun, as a line of heavily armed Somali soldiers snaked down the mountainside to a ...

GENEVA – New wars, unresolved conflicts and a spike in climate-related disasters resulted in appalling levels of death, destruction and displacement last year, forcing UNHCR’s global operations to ...

Syrian refugees are eager for an improved security situation and political stability so they can return home safely; 27 per cent of Syrian refugees recently surveyed in Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq ...

CAIRO - Egypt and Somalia agreed to activate the military cooperation protocols that were signed in 2024, in yet another dramatic move which could interest Ethiopia, a country entangled in ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Finnish government could initiate mass deportation of Somalia asylum seekers, it has emerged, in one of the actions that could lead to heated debates among members of the ...

Somalia and Egypt announced Sunday that the two countries have agreed to cooperate in the fight against the al-Shabaab terrorist group. In a statement, the Somali Defense Ministry said Egypt is ...

Thirty years ago, making a phone call from Somalia meant crossing the border into better-connected Kenya or Ethiopia. Yet by 2004 the lawless nation had more telephone connections per capita than ...

President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his Somali counterpart Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed a joint political declaration on Thursday to elevate the bilateral relationship between Egypt and Somalia to ...