Somalia’s Landmark IDP Law: A New Chapter for Protection, Inclusion, and Durable Solutions
On 4 December 2025, Somalia signed into law its first legal framework dedicated to internally displaced persons: the Act for Internally Displaced People (Law No. 42 of 2025). The law arrives after decades in which conflict, insecurity, climate shocks, forced evictions, and recurrent disasters have displaced 3.4 million Somalis (UNHCR 2026) from their homes, often […]