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Report prepared by the Research & Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa. 

Author: Caitlin Sturridge

This paper explores physical movements, and the translocal connections that accompany them, through the perspective of rural–urban livelihoods in Laikipia County, Kenya. In doing so, it sets out an...

Report prepared by the Research & Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa. 

Author: Farah Manji

Many Somali refugees fled to Kenya following their country’s civil war in the 1990s and during the famine of 2011. At the time of writing, the number of registered Somali refugees and asylum seekers in...

Report prepared by the Research & Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa. 

Author: Kiya Gezahegne, Department of Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

The pattern of migration from Ethiopia to Sudan, through the Metema border town, has proved complex and is expanding, making it...

Report prepared by the Research & Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa. 

Authors: Ayan Mohamoud, Laura Hammond

Internal displacement is a key economic and social development concern in Somaliland. The increased frequency of severe droughts culminated in the third food emergency in a decade in...

Report prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa. 

Authors: Fekadu Adugna, Kiya Gezahegne

Population displacement as a result of humanitarian and protection emergencies is a significant challenge in Ethiopia. As of June 2023, an estimated 4.4 million people in the country...

Report prepared by the Research & Evidence Facility. Author: Gianluca Iazzolino

Our research focused on Gulu in Uganda, Eldoret in Kenya, and Dire Dawa in Ethiopia as destination cities, and a selective examination of rural areas where people are migrating from.

The study examined the following...

Research paper prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa. 

Author: Meron Zeleke, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Bayreuth

The research paper explores experiences of Ethiopian female migrants working as maids in Djibouti, by considering their living and...

Report prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa. 

Author: Dereje Feyissa with contributions from Milkessa Midega and Ketema Wakjira.

As a secondary city, the competitive advantage of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia is location. It is the closest large city to the port of Djibouti...

Report prepared by the Research and Evidence Facility for the Horn of Africa. 

Author: Ngala Chome

This paper examines the impacts of the development of formal border crossings on the economy of borderlands, especially in remote, rural areas of Africa, where local people’s livelihoods often depend...