The district is located in the Liben Zone, situated between Filtu and Dollo Ado, the largest town in the Liben Zone.
These refugees are Somalis who fled the civil war in Somalia around early 2009.
[1] There are five refugee camps in the Liben zone, three of which are found in Bokolmayo.
The majority of the population in Bokolmayo are Somalis (99.9%), with the remaining 0.001% consisting of individuals from other Ethiopian nationalities, who have come for professional work or business.
Bokolmayo has a population of nearly 110,000, of which: 40% are pastoralists, 20% are agropastoralist, 20% are farmers and 20% are urban dwellers according to Ethiopia's central statistical agency.