On the 17 January 2014, the USAID Regional Rep, Nancy Lindberg, Assistant Administrator visited the joint UNHCR-WFP distribution of NFI and food within M’Poko Airport in Bangui. The distribution at the site is an inter-agency effort involving UNHCR, WFP and its implementing partner COOPI. UNHCR acts...

Rebecca* is nervous; she clenches her fists and her eyes dart around, keeping an eye out for someone, something. She sits out in the open on a chair and, in a trembling voice, tells about her recent rape in M'Poko, a site sheltering tens of thousands of people displaced by months of violence in Bang...

Rebecca * est nerveuse. Elle est constamment sur le qui-vive, les poings serrés et ses yeux scrutent sans cesse les alentours. Elle est assise en plein air et, d'une voix tremblante, elle raconte le viol dont elle a récemment été victime à M'Poko, un site abritant des dizaines de milliers de personn...

The informal camp for refugees and migrants in Calais known as “the Jungle” is not an environment fit for human habitation. UNHCR has long recommended its closure and its replacement by proper accommodation for asylum seekers and migrants. Yesterday, the French authorities transferred some 1,900 peo...

MOGADISHU, Somalia, August 18 (UNHCR) – Kadija is in shock. Over the past two weeks, the 32-year-old Somali has lost her livelihood, fled her rural home and ended up in a dismal settlement in one of the most dangerous cities on earth. "I don't have my own house and my children can't go out and pl...

After spending the last five days with Bob Geldof, I feel that I know his opinion about everything. His forceful rhetoric - delivered at one hundred miles per an hour and sprinkled with a selection of profanities - is what first helped to make the famine in Ethiopia a global issue during the 1980...