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UNHCR and WFP warn refugees in Africa face hunger and malnutrition as COVID-19 worsens food shortages
news UNHCR, 09 Jul 2020 (3 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Food Programme (WFP) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters – as well as supply chain challenges, rising food prices and loss of income due to COVID19 - threaten to leave millions of refugees across Africa without food. -
UNHCR appalled at rising violence against displaced in eastern DRC
news UNHCR, 30 Jun 2020 (3 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed at the increasing number of violent attacks on displaced civilians by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). -
As COVID-19 and conflict surge, DR Congo displaced face deadly consequences of chronic underfunding
news UNHCR, 09 Jun 2020 (3 years ago )Massive funding gaps are threatening hundreds of thousands of lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where surging violence and COVID-19 are exacerbating already dire conditions for millions of forcibly displaced people. -
Massive floods in DRC’s South Kivu impact 80,000 people, kill dozens
news UNHCR, 21 Apr 2020 (3 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is working with local authorities and partners to immediately assist some 80,000 people affected by heavy floods in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). -
Central African refugees make soap to help fight COVID-19
news UNHCR, 28 Aug 2020 (3 years ago )In northern DRC, refugees from the Central African Republic are finding ways to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic while improving their livelihoods. -
Refugees in South Africa share acts of kindness with their hosts
news UNHCR, 13 Oct 2020 (3 years ago )It is the kindness of strangers that fuels Saeed Mohamed’s passion to give back. South Africans welcomed him as a refugee from Somalia and now he wants to help the community amid the country’s COVID-19 pandemic. -
Displaced Mozambicans volunteer to support outreach efforts by aid agencies
news UNHCR, 03 Mar 2021 (3 years ago )UNHCR has mobilized displaced people to help reach others within their communities and better attend to their most pressing needs. -
Fear and loss stalk Mozambicans fleeing insurgent violence
news UNHCR, 22 Mar 2021 (3 years ago )Some 670,000 people forced from their homes in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province in a crisis that has failed to hold the world’s attention. -
Attacks by armed group displace 20,000 civilians in eastern DRC – UNHCR, 16 July
news UNHCR, 16 Jul 2021 (2 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent and enhanced measures to protect civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where a series of recent attacks by an armed group has displaced nearly 20,000 people in North Kivu province. -
All over the province, people want to buy our rice – UNHCR, 27 August 2021
news UNHCR, 27 Aug 2021 (2 years ago )It takes more than an hour on foot to traverse the muddy terrain that leads to Antoinette’s expansive rice farm in Chamassuia, a local village about five kilometres from Lôvua settlement in Angola’s Lunda Norte province.