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Introduction
The purpose of this report is to provide relevant information for the assessment of applications for international protection, including refugee status and subsidiary protection. Moreover, the report is intended to inform the update of EUAA’s country guidance on Somalia (2025).
The report provides an update on relevant profiles and key-socio economic indicators across the country as of March 2025. It builds upon preceding EUAA COI reports, notably the Somalia: Defection, Desertion and Disengagement from Al-Shabaab from February 2023,2 EUAA COI query Somalia: Forms and prevalence of repeated FGM (April 2023),3 as well as reports on Targeted profiles, 4 Key socio-economic indicators, 5 and Actors, 6 which were published in the period July-September 2021.
Methodology
Defining the terms of reference
The terms of reference of this report build on previous EUAA reporting on the same topic, internal and external consultations with experts, the EUAA network members, and draw from the relevant most recent literature on the topic. Additionally, national asylum authorities of EU+ countries7belonging to the Country Guidance Network on Somalia were surveyed on their needs and their input was taken on-board in the design of these terms of reference. Feedback and suggestions were then formulated into the final version that can be found in Annex II.
The reference period for this report is from 1 April 2023 to 30 March 2025, but also includes general information to provide background and contextual information to the current situation. The drafting period finished on 11 April 2025, peer review occurred between 14 and 23 April 2025, and additional information was added to the report as a result of the quality review process during the review implementation up until 30 April 2025. The report was internally reviewed subsequently.