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 ...

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...

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.

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...