ICERAS

As of June 30, 2024, Uganda had 11,520 Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers. This was part of the total of 1,702,278 refugees and asylum seekers in Uganda at that time.  Uganda is home to some of the largest refugee populations in the world. The majority of refugees in Uganda come from South Sudan (55%), the Democratic Republic of the […]

Uganda’s refugee population is projected to hit 2 million by the end of 2024, with declining funding presenting new challenges to the country’s ability to maintain its open-door refugee policy. with over 17,000 refugees having lived in Uganda for more than 10years . The majority still being the Congolese, South Sudanese, Rwandese, Somalis, Eritreans, and […]

By the end of April 2023, Uganda was hosting 1,673,716 refugees and asylum seekers. New arrivals continue to enter the country from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan and South Sudan. Since the beginning of the year, Uganda has received 48,707 refugees from Sudan (18,682), South Sudan (9,927), Eritrea (8,960), DRC (9,005) and […]

OPERATIONAL CONTEXT Over the last decade, Ethiopia has witnessed significant influxes of refugees from neighboring countries, primarily Somalia, South Sudan, Eritrea, and Sudan. As of the end of March 2024, the country hosts 1,059,232 refugees. The refugee population in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, stands at 77,653. Eritrean refugees make up approximately 92 % […]

ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) — The UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has called for enhanced protection measures for Eritrean asylum-seekers arriving in Ethiopia. “The Eritrean asylum-seekers have entered into Ethiopia through its northern regions of Afar and Tigray, seeking international protection and basic assistance,” the UN Refugee Agency said in a statement released on […]

Thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese refugees are demanding to be relocated from unsafe camps in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Amhara region, where they say they lack basic services and are subject to almost daily attacks from local militiamen and armed bandits. Amhara, Ethiopia’s second-most populous region, has since August 2023 been gripped by a full-blown rebellion, pitting a loosely […]

نوع الوثيقة: Situation Reports / Updates اللغة: English This month, UNHCR called for the need to protect Eritrean asylum seekers in Ethiopia. In a press release shared in November, we warned of the steady influx of asylum seekers from Eritrea arriving in Ethiopia through the northern regions of Afar and Tigray, seeking international protection and […]

Teklemariam Bekit BBC Tigrinya Eritrean residents in Ethiopia’s capital have reported widespread arrests among their community, sparking fear among refugees and asylum seekers who fled their homes in search of a better life. While not unprecedented, the scale and intensity of the current crackdown in Addis Ababa is significant, with hundreds reportedly detained in recent […]

Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia—Caught between all fronts By Markus Rudolf Background Forced displacement in Ethiopia is a complex issue with, in part, contradictory trends. In 2018, when the Eritrean–Ethiopian peace agreement laid the foundation for opening borders and the Nobel Peace Prize, between one and three million people were displaced by inter-ethnic conflicts and violence […]

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