Somalia: Samira Abdi anxiously watches her 6-year-old son as a nurse carefully weighs him at the feeding centre of the Melkadida refugee camp in the eastern part of Ethiopia's Somali region. Samira took her children there as they had been suffering from stomach pains for weeks. However, he knows very well what is actually tormenting them: hunger.
Arrival flows and asylum applications for 2022 appear to have increased compared to 2021, according to data from the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum. At the same time, however, during this period, there was a decrease in the number of asylum seekers residing in the structures of the territory, an increase in voluntary departures and a decrease in the backlog of asylum.