Ethiopia

• Djibouti
• Ethiopia
• Yemen

Dozens of migrants from Ethiopia were flown home on Tuesday from Yemen. This was the first repatriation flight from the war-torn nation since 2019, according to the IOM.

• Ethiopia
• Eritrea

The UN World Food Programme chief is calling for supply trucks to be allowed to deliver food to thousands of refugees in Tigray, saying current rations will run out on Friday.

• Ethiopia
• Sudan

UNHCR and Teach For All have started a project that offers young refugee graduates the opportunity to work as teachers. It's part of the UNHCR's effort to make sure more refugees get the chance to go to university. Currently, only 3% of young refugees are enrolled in higher education.

• Ethiopia
• Djibouti
• Yemen

A boat thought to have been carrying between 160 and 200 people overturned at the weekend off the coast of Yemen. The bodies of 25 migrants have already been recovered and as many as 175 migrants are still missing.

• Ethiopia
• Italy

A total of 70 refugees from the Horn of Africa, including 13 minors, arrived in Italy on Friday through the humanitarian corridors protocol. The refugees were staying in camps in Ethiopia and suffered from worsening conditions in recent months due to the conflict in the Tigray.

• Djibouti
• Somalia
• Ethiopia

Restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19 impacted more than 300,000 people in East Africa and the Horn of Africa last year, a new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) found. Meanwhile, the number of migrant crossing to Yemen dramatically decreased in 2020.

• Zimbabwe
• Spain
• Ethiopia

The International Organization of Migration (IOM) has released a report examining the anguish and turmoil that migrants and refugees experience not knowing what happened to their relatives and friends. Above all, it focused on legal hurdles, especially faced by migrants in the UK, that might make an already painful situation worse.

• Ethiopia

UNICEF has denounced that over one million people have been displaced in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Fighting is continuing after the Ethiopian government's military offensive started on November 4, 2020.

• Ethiopia
• Somalia
• Djibouti

At least 39 people have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti in East Africa. The UN migration agency IOM said 16 of the victims were children.

• Yemen
• Somalia
• Ethiopia

The UN migration agency, regional governments and 38 partner countries have launched an appeal for 99 million dollars in aid for over half a million migrants in the Horn of Africa and Yemen.

• Ethiopia
• Yemen

Houthi rebels in Yemen have admitted that their forces had caused a blaze killing 45 people at a migrant center earlier in March. More than a dozen soldiers and officials will be tried in court.

• Ethiopia
• Yemen

In Yemen the leader of the Iran-backed Houthi group, which is fighting the government, has expressed "deep regret" over the migrant deaths in a fire last week. He said an investigation is under way, after the UN called for a probe into the incident.