A new field office, in Monga, was opened to provide better protection and assistance to new arrivals from CAR in remote areas of Bas-Uele Province.

A new healthcare centre was built and equipped in Nganza, Kasai Central province.

A new refugee settlement called Maaji was re-opened and the first 216 South Sudanese relocated there from Nyumanzi Reception Centre on 4 Feb.

A new report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council and UNHCR-led Global Protection Cluster (GPC) finds that nearly 40 million people are at heightened risk of violence, discrimination and rights abuses as COVID-19 spawns a ‘coping crisis’.

A new settlement area is to be opened in Yumbe district, and could potentially host up to 100,000 South Sudanese refugees.

A new settlement, named Omugo, opens in northern Uganda, with the capacity to hold 40,000 refugees fleeing from South Sudan

A newly opened settlement in Imvepi, Arua district, began receiving new arrivals from South Sudan on 21 February.

A one-day consultation workshop on ‘Adolescent and Youth Programming in a Humanitarian Context’ within the framework of the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) took place today in Cairo on 18 October. The workshop, organized jointly by UNHCR and UNICEF provided an opportunity to improve the knowledge and understanding of the extent to which the current 3RP responses serve youth and adolescents in key sectors and build the capacity of partners.

A planning workshop was conducted in January with16 organizations who drafted recommendations linked to SGBV gap analysis and 2018 workplan draft