With Igad, there’s hope for lasting solutions to crises in Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa is at the epicentre of some of the largest and longest-running refugee and internally displaced persons crises in the world.

Last year, the United Nations Refugee Agency, estimated that there were more than 14 million persons of concern (including refugees, returnees, stateless people, internally displaced persons and asylum-seekers) in the region. This represents more than 70 per cent of all displaced people in Africa, and more than one-fifth globally.