The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has closed a refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia where an estimated 250,000 Somali refugees once lived, after the last 719 inhabitants left the settlement to return home to the self-declared autonomous republic of Somaliland.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed for an additional US $14,068,000 to help people affected by drought in Somalia and to fund other humanitarian operations in the country for the rest of 2004.