Somalia's refugee exodus crossed a new threshold this past week, with more than a million people now having fled the country for the surrounding region, according to the latest UNHCR data. The most recent arrivals continue to cite insecurity and dwindling food resources as the main reasons for their...

UNITED NATIONS, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The World Food Program (WFP) said Tuesday that "insufficient funding has forced the agency to halve food rations distributed to the most vulnerable Central African families." The WFP said its humanitarian response plan for 2017 is only seven percent financed. Desp...

Metres away from passengers awaiting their flights in the departure lounge of M’Poko airport in Bangui, tens of thousands of people shelter inside old jumbo-jets, under hangars or in ramshackle tents. Marie Valentine, 66, is one of them. She remembers vividly the bullets flying in all directions ...

Myanmar’s political reforms will continue and more changes can be expected after the election next year, but the push towards democracy will be gradual, said a top adviser to the government. “Hopefully, we will have all political parties being involved and hopefully it will be a free election,” s...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has had to scale back plans for emergency feeding of 400,000 people in Boko Haram-hit northeast Nigeria due to funding shortfalls, a top U.N. official said on Wednesday.

Le Tchad débordé par la vague des réfugiés Ce mardi marque la journée mondiale des réfugiés. En Afrique, c'est le Tchad qui accueille le plus grand nombre de réfugiés par rapport à sa population. Mais la crise économique rend difficile leur prise en charge. Le Tchad occupe le quatrième rang mond...

A skirmish erupted between the Tatmadaw and the Karen National Union (KNU) in the area controlled by the KNU Brigade 5 in Hpapun (Mu Traw) District in the Karen State on July 12 while the third session of the Union Peace Conference (21st Century Panglong) is being held in Naypyidaw. The Karen Nat...

Mr. Arnauld Akodjenou, the Regional Refugee Coordinator for South Sudan Situation and Special Advisor to the High Commissioner was in Ottawa to press the Trudeau government for more Canadian involvement in South Sudan’s five-year civil war, which has killed 400,000 and forced 2.2 million people to f...

For refugees and migrants like Marianys Perez, having access to vaccinations is a chance at surviving the deadly coronavirus. Venezuelan Marianys Katerin Perez thought the chance of being vaccinated against the coronavirus was far out of reach. But in March, she was among the first Venezuelan ref...