UNHCR: Violence flares anew in northern Mozambique, forcing 22,000 to flee in a week.
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Briefing note )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned at the rapidly growing displacement in northern Mozambique as a conflict that is entering its eighth year appears to be intensifying again, forcing nearly 22,000 people to flee their homes in a single week
Cholera outbreak among refugees from Sudan’s Darfur, urgent funding needed.
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Briefing note )A deadly cholera outbreak has hit a refugee settlement in eastern Chad hosting Sudanese arrivals from Darfur, raising alarm over worsening sanitary and health conditions as humanitarian aid dries up.
How can we protect refugees from growing digital threats?
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Story )Online misinformation, disinformation and hate speech targeting refugees and asylum-seekers is causing real-world harms. Finding ways to tackle it is critical.
Sudanese refugee women defy odds to rebuild their lives in Chad.
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Story )Sudanese women in Chad are creating opportunities for themselves and supporting each other to recover from loss and trauma.
Aid cuts shut down critical services for Sudanese refugees in Chad
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Story )UNHCR and its partners are being forced to close or scale back health, education and other crucial programmes for refugees in Chad due to severe funding shortages.
Climate change fuels deadly conflict in Nigeria’s Middle Belt
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Story )As world leaders gather at the COP29 summit, climate change has reduced the availability of natural resources in Nigeria, aggravating clashes between communities in Benue State and displacing some half a million people.
Refugee activists at COP29 call for funding and support to withstand climate threats
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Story )Forcibly displaced people attending the global climate summit in Azerbaijan have been calling on decision makers to address gaps in climate finance.
In Burkina Faso, the ‘Mother of the Sahel’ brings education and hope to forcibly displaced children.
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Story )As conflict forced thousands of children to flee to the safety of her hometown, Maimouna Ba rallied the community to provide support and education.
Five things to know about the catastrophic flooding in the East and Horn of Africa
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Story )Torrential rains across the East and Horn of Africa have claimed hundreds of lives and washed away homes, uprooting thousands of people including refugees and other previously displaced people.
Climate crisis fuels flooding and deepens displacement.
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Story )Climate change is fuelling flooding and other forms of extreme weather, causing fresh displacement and making life even harder for people already uprooted from their homes.