East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes

Displacement from conflicts in East and Horn of Africa requires comprehensive responses, enhancing asylum space and protection pathways.

Global Appeal 2025 | Regional Overview

 

Previous Global Appeal regional overviews:
2024 | 2023
Previous Global Report regional overviews:
2023 | 2022 | 2021
 
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A family arrives in South Sudan, fleeing the war in Sudan via the Joda border point. © UNHCR/Samuel Otieno
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Global Appeal 2025 | Regional Overview

The East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region hosted around 5.4 million refugees and asylum-seekers and 18.8 million internally displaced people (IDPs) by mid-2024. Millions have fled conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. Heavy rains and severe flooding triggered by El Niño devastated several countries in 2024, impacting hundreds of thousands of refugees, IDPs and host community members, and causing additional displacement.  

To read more about UNHCR’s planning for 2025 in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes, please download the regional overview PDF.

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Financials

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East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes | 2025
Total$2.185 billionProtect | 31%Respond | 45%Empower | 15%Solve | 10%
Protect: Attaining favourable protection environments
Respond: Realizing rights in safe environments
Empower: Empowering communities and achieving gender equality
Solve: Securing solutions

Budget information for the current year is updated monthly, while budget and expenditure information for all other years are final.

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