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World
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International
7/3/2023 11:10:46 AM
Heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people around China as the capital had a relative respite from sweltering heat.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
7/2/2023 3:56:27 PM
Fierce fighting between the forces of rival generals shook the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday as disease and malnutrition threatened the rising number of displaced.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/22/2023 2:47:47 PM
In war-torn Sudan, a Blue Nile river town has become a relative sanctuary from the fighting, but survivors living there endure overcrowding, widespread disease and creeping hunger.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/20/2023 2:20:55 PM
The head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi said on Tuesday that the number of people who have fled the fighting in Sudan was now more than 500,000 while two million are internally displaced.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/16/2023 5:14:59 PM
The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children including 270,000 in the Darfur region, the United Nations children's agency said, warning many more were at "grave risk".
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World
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Africa
6/15/2023 8:59:15 PM
Almost one million people have fled their homes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo so far this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday.
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World
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Region
6/15/2023 2:35:37 PM
The European Union on Thursday pledged 560 million euros ($600 million) to help countries neighbouring Syria cope with the costs of hosting Syrians displaced by the years of conflict in their country.
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World
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International
6/14/2023 9:46:59 AM
Some 110 million people have had to flee their homes because of conflict, persecution, or human rights violations, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says. The war in Sudan, which has displaced nearly 2 million people since April, is but the latest in a long list of crises that has led to the record-breaking figure.
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World
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Africa
6/12/2023 6:36:04 PM
At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, security analysts and a local community leader said Monday.
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World
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Africa
6/5/2023 10:33:53 AM
Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world's fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people, with the number mushrooming by more than 2,000% since 2019, according to government data.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/26/2023 4:51:12 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi discussed the need for the UN body to mobilize humanitarian and medical aid for countries hosting displaced Sudanese fleeing violence in their country.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/24/2023 4:58:27 PM
Fighting between Sudan's warring generals has displaced more than one million people inside the country since it erupted on April 15, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
5/24/2023 3:15:47 PM
More than a million Somalis have been displaced within their own country in just over four months through a "toxic" mix of drought, conflict and floods, humanitarian agencies said Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
5/23/2023 7:42:52 PM
Thousands of people displaced by the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region staged protests Tuesday demanding to be able to return home and calling for the withdrawal of "invading forces", witnesses and local television said.
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World
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International
5/20/2023 9:59:24 PM
More than 36,000 people have now been forced from their homes by deadly floods in northeast Italy, regional officials said Saturday, as rising waters swallowed more houses and fresh landslides isolated hamlets.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/20/2023 6:04:31 PM
The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) has received 27 tons of relief supplies provided by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the European Union (EU) to aid Sudanese who have fled the ongoing crisis in their country to Egypt, according to the Ministry of Social Solidarity.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
5/19/2023 4:25:39 PM
The United States on Friday promised $103 million for Sudan and neighboring countries to support displaced people as a month of war between rival generals triggers a humanitarian crisis.
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World
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Africa
5/14/2023 10:59:08 AM
Around 200,000 people have been displaced due to flash flooding in central Somalia, a regional official told AFP, as the Shabelle River burst its banks and submerged roads.
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World
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Region
5/11/2023 3:43:12 PM
UNHCR representative Hanan Hamdan expressed concern about how wars and conflicts in the MENA region are affecting civilians, especially refugees and internally displaced persons.
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World
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International
5/11/2023 10:22:36 AM
The war in Ukraine helped push the global total of people left internally displaced by conflict or natural disasters to a record high of 71.1 million last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
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