Ethiopia — Flow Monitoring Dashboard 39 (December 2022)

In December 2022, a total of 31,976 movements were observed across five of Ethiopia's flow monitoring points (FMPs). This represents a 6.5% decrease in daily average movements in comparison with November 2022 when an average of 1,103 movements per day were observed.

Outgoing movements during December have continued to be higher (77.4%) than incoming movements (22.6%). A total of 24,748 outgoing movements were observed of which 9,223 (37.3%) were heading towards Saudi Arabia, 3,006 (12.1%) were going to Djibouti, 2,368 (9.6%) were travelling towards Kenya, 2,059 (8.3%) to Sudan, 2,040 (8.2%) intended to reach Somalia, 1,554 (6.3%) headed to Yemen, 1,102 (4.5%) to Qatar and 807 (3.3%) to the United Arab Emirates while remaining movements were travelling to several Middle Eastern, Southern Africa, European and North American countries.

At the same time, 7,228 incoming movements were observed, of which 2,661 (36.8%) had originated from Sudan, while 1,779 (24.6%) came from Djibouti, 1,531 (21.2%) from Somalia, 1,082 (15%) movements from Kenya, 170 (2.4%) from Yemen and the remaining from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Almost all of these were Ethiopian nationals who were likely returning home.