The UN Refugee Agency (UNCHR) said it has facilitated the voluntary return of more than 2,000 Somali refugees from Yemen, through a program called Assisted Spontaneous Returns (ASR) it started in 2017. Since the start of this year, 1,321 migrants from Somalians living in Yemen have returned home.
The United Kingdom is home to the largest Somali community in Europe, many of whom arrived in the 1990s or before. But the struggle for integration is ever present despite nearly 75 percent of the community possessing British citizenship. Emma Wallis looks into the reasons why.
A reported 150 Somali migrants were able to travel back to their home country from Libya with the support of UN agency International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union. It was the fourth and largest such initiative as part of the program concerning the voluntary return of Somali citizens to their home country.
More than 100 migrants, including young children from the Horn of Africa, arrived in Italy this week. The migrants were flown to Rome via a 'humanitarian corridor' project begun in early 2016.
The Somali government, together with the EU and IOM has launched an initiative to support returnee migrants as they integrate back into their country of origin.
When civil war broke out in Somalia, Ali Hassan Suufi and his wife fled to Yemen. But after the Yemeni Civil War began they returned to their home country, which had been ravaged by terror and poverty.
Refugees on the Greek island of Samos are living in camps with little prospects of education or employment. Human smugglers have drowned migrants in Yemen on purpose and the German Christian Democratic Union supports a plan to send rejected asylum seekers back to Afghanistan.
More than 50 Ethiopians and Somalis are feared drowned off Yemen, allegedly after smugglers forced them to jump ship. It's the second such incident reported in two days; the first claimed at least 50 lives.
Up to 50 people believed to have been migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia have been "deliberately drowned" near Yemen. The UN's migration agency has called the killings "shocking and inhumane."
Suleiman Ali is a Somali refugee who fled violence and traveled to Italy where he now works as a Big Data junior expert.
31-year old Abdi fled the Al-Shabaab armed group in Somalia and then waited for some time in Libya. He eventually arrived in Italy thanks to some help from other migrants.
Authorities in Egypt's Beheira governorate have arrested a new suspect in relation to the capsizing of a boat filled with illegal migrants last summer. Over 200 people died in the tragedy.