Abdullahi Boru Halakhe is the senior advocate for East and Southern Africa at Refugees International. He is an African policy expert with over a decade of experience in security, conflict, human rights, refugee work, and strategic communications.
Abdullahi has worked with and advised various international organizations including the International Rescue Committee, the International Crisis Group, Amnesty International, the BBC, the World Federation of United Nations Associations, the European Union, the African Union, USAID, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program.
He has regional and thematic expertise having worked on/in Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, and Chad on issues including humanitarian aid reform advocacy, refugees, internally displaced people, and security.
Abdullahi has regularly appeared in the media as an expert guest and analyst and has published some of his work in the media, including on Al Jazeera, Reuters, BBC World Service, CNN International, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, The Independent, The German News Agency, New Zealand Public Radio, France 24, The Africa Report, African Arguments, and Think Africa Press. He has a book chapter on Kenya’s security agencies and the war in Somalia in the Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics.
He holds a master’s in International Security Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and especially the eastern part of the country, has endured decades of conflict, pitting government forces against rebel groups.
April 5, 2024
Donor countries must urgently increase funding for a humanitarian response that was insufficient even before the latest conflict.
February 16, 2024
Sudan’s conflict, now six months in, is quickly becoming a crisis of starvation.
November 11, 2023
The South Sudan government, aid agencies, and donors need to work together to urgently put an end to this deepening crisis.
July 27, 2023
The crisis in Sudan has accelerated. No more time can be wasted as hundreds of thousands more potential returnees wait in the wings.
July 27, 2023
As the situation worsens in Sudan, more people will flee to countries like Egypt. Urgent steps must be taken to meet their needs.
July 24, 2023
More Sudanese will continue seeking refuge in Egypt. A more humane and localized approach is needed.
June 20, 2023
Action must be taken to save the lives of those exposed, stranded, and at immediate risk in Renk as South Sudanese returnees flee fighting in Sudan.
June 19, 2023
Abdullahi Halakhe traveled to Egypt's southern border to witness the response to the Sudan crisis. Here’s what he found—and what must be done.
May 25, 2023
Urbanization is now the dominant form of internal displacement in Somalia. A response must recognize Somalia's urban future.
May 25, 2023
