COP27
-
Climate change
10/21/2022 7:11:48 PM
The devastating floods in South Sudan have blocked aid from reaching displaced people, the UN said Friday, warning that a camp housing 75,000 Sudanese refugees would receive no food this month.
|
COP27
-
Climate change
10/12/2022 6:53:06 PM
About 500 people have died in Nigeria's worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others been displaced from their homes since the start of the rainy season, the government said.
|
World
-
Africa
10/11/2022 9:05:16 PM
The United Nations said Tuesday that renewed clashes between armed tribal militias in South Sudan's Upper Nile State have displaced 8,000 civilians.
|
World
-
International
8/27/2022 2:50:29 PM
Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and injured and displaced thousands more since mid-June, officials said Saturday.
|
World
-
Africa
8/11/2022 4:17:21 PM
A historic drought in Somalia has now displaced one million people and left the country in the shadow of famine, the United Nations said Thursday.
|
World
-
Region
8/4/2022 3:59:04 PM
Eight years on since the Islamic State jihadist group's massacres of Yazidis, more then 200,000 survivors are still displaced from their homes in Iraq, the United Nations said Thursday.
|
War in Ukraine
-
Humanitarian
6/28/2022 5:07:39 PM
More than 6.2 million people are now estimated to be displaced within Ukraine due to Russia's invasion, having fled their homes but stayed inside the country, the UN said Tuesday.
|
Sports
-
World
6/2/2022 10:20:19 AM
Pele published a message Wednesday urging Vladimir Putin to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has resulted in thousands of deaths and displaced millions.
|
World
-
Africa
5/8/2022 12:26:25 PM
Ami Sana hangs a tattered tarp for a bit of shade where she can rest on a break from pounding stones under the scorching sun.
|
War in Ukraine
-
Humanitarian
5/5/2022 3:43:00 PM
Poland and Sweden are co-hosting an international donors' conference on Thursday in Warsaw to raise funds for humanitarian efforts to help war-torn Ukraine, where thousands have been killed, cities devastated and millions of people displaced by Russia's attack.
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
World
3/29/2022 8:09:40 PM
More than 10 million people have been displaced in Ukraine or beyond its borders since the war in the country began, placing growing pressures on the countries hosting refugees.
|
War in Ukraine
-
Humanitarian
3/23/2022 9:30:54 AM
The humanitarian needs of more than 10 million displaced Ukrainians have quickly become staggering. Yet Mark Malloch-Brown, president of the Open Society Foundations, warns that longer-term problems resulting from Russia's invasion will grow ever larger if they aren't sufficiently addressed now.
|
World
-
Africa
3/20/2022 1:02:30 PM
Fourteen civilians, including seven children, were killed in a camp for displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the local Red Cross said Sunday.
|
Egypt
-
Society
3/13/2022 4:26:26 PM
The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb called on world leaders on Sunday to do everything in their power to “extinguish the fires of war,” urging them to unite their efforts to save the vulnerable and displaced.
|
War in Ukraine
-
Humanitarian
3/11/2022 4:15:50 PM
Some 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded two weeks ago, and around two million more have been internally displaced by the "senseless" war, the United Nations said Friday.
|
World
-
Africa
3/5/2022 12:45:46 PM
The United Nations appealed Friday for $205 million to deliver life-saving assistance to more than 1.6 million people who have fled the fighting in northern Ethiopia.
|
War in Ukraine
-
Humanitarian
3/1/2022 5:33:29 PM
Some 677,000 refugees have fled the conflict in Ukraine for safety in neighboring countries, while around a million people are estimated to be internally displaced, the United Nations said Tuesday.
|
World
-
International
2/27/2022 12:20:12 PM
About 12,000 people in Malaysia have been evacuated from their homes, officials said on Sunday, after heavy rains caused flooding in the country's northern states.
|
Egypt
-
Foreign Affairs
2/3/2022 8:14:09 PM
Egypt strongly condemned on Thursday an attack on a displaced people camp in Ituri province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which killed scores of innocent people, including children.
|
World
-
Africa
1/9/2022 7:08:18 PM
Aid agencies have suspended their work in an area of Ethiopia's Tigray region after a deadly airstrike on a camp for people displaced by the conflict, the UN's emergency response agency said Sunday.
|