UNHCR and partners marked International Women’s Day with a wide range of activities in refugee camps and sites for internally displaced people in South Sudan.

CAR: renewed inter-religious violence in Bambari after the killing of two young Muslims by unidentified assailants on 2 March

RCA : regain de violences inter-religieux à Bambari après le meurtre de deux jeunes musulmans par des assaillants non-identifiés le 2 mars

CAR: a UN report describes continuous violence towards children. The UN documented the death of 333 children and the mutliation of 589 others

RCA : un rapport de l'ONU décrit la violence incessante envers les enfants. L'ONU a documenté le meurtre de 333 enfants et la mutilation de 589 autres

UNHCR Head of Private Sector Fundraising, Christian Schaake was in Kakuma on 29 Feb. The mission’s aim was to familiarize with the operation/funds requirements.

"Strong leadership and vision needed to deal with the refugee situation. This is as much a crisis of European solidarity as it is a refugee crisis", HC Grandi.

UNHCR: 6 steps towards solving the refugee situation in Europe

As of 01 March 2016, 173,197 individuals from Yemen have arrived into the region, including 82,317 into the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia & Sudan)

UNHCR warns of imminent humanitarian crisis in Greece amid disarray in Europe over asylum