SC/12865 Security Council 7965th Meeting (AM) Killings Must End, Says National Representative, Urging Dialogue with Armed Groups Violence in the Central African Republic — including attacks on minority groups and peacekeepers — harkened back to the darkest days of that country’s past, but ...

In Mbilé refugee camp in the east of Cameroon, home to 11,000 people from Central African Republic, making even a small fire has all too often been the stuff of nightmares. Until last year, the women in charge of such chores would have to walk up to five hours a day to pick up what firewood they ...

By Alex Whiting ROME, Nov 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 40 percent of refugee families in Chad are going hungry after their food rations were cut two years ago, forcing many to reduce the number of meals and pushing some into debt, according to United Nations agencies. Chad in ce...

ROME, Oct 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hunger levels in developing countries have fallen 29 percent since 2000, but efforts to curb hunger must be accelerated in order to meet an international target to eradicate it by 2030, according to an annual index published on Tuesday. Hunger levels ar...

By Megan Rowling BARCELONA, June 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations has raised its 2016 humanitarian funding appeal to a record $21.6 billion from $19.7 billion, partly due to new disasters including a cyclone that battered Fiji and an earthquake that hit Ecuador, as well as the...

NAIROBI – A new study conducted in Rwanda has found that humanitarian assistance for refugees has a positive impact on the economies of surrounding host communities, and this impact is significantly greater when refugees receive cash transfers rather than food rations to meet their monthly food need...

A UNHCR report reveals that 65.3 million people were displaced as of the end of 2015, compared to 59.5 million just twelve months earlier Conflict and persecution caused global forced displacement to escalate sharply in 2015 reaching the highest level ever recorded and representing immense human ...

Un rapport du HCR souligne que 65,3 millions de personnes étaient déracinées à la fin 2015, en comparaison de 59,5 millions seulement douze mois plus tôt Les conflits et la persécution ont causé des déplacements forcés à travers le monde ayant fortement augmenté en 2015 pour atteindre le plus hau...

The recent refugee crisis in the Arab world and Europe has taken the spotlight off sub-Saharan Africa. But a new report by UNHCR reveals that the situation in Africa in 2015 was also grim. Here is a graphical overview. The latest report from the United Nation's refugee agency (UNHCR), titled "G...

Plus de 60 stars, y compris la chanteuse malienne Rokia Traoré et le musicien sénégalais Babaa Maal, appellent à signer une pétition en faveur des personnes déplacées. Le HCR, l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, a lancé aujourd’hui une campagne demandant au grand public à travers le mon...