Arrangements have been made to prepare sufficient electricity to meet rising demand next year, according to the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE). The rate of increase in electricity consumption typically rises by 15 percent per year on average. This fiscal year though, demand is expected...

This year alone, at least 55,000 people - including 28,600 children – have fled their homes because of escalating brutality and violence."Children are paying the highest price for this new surge of violence," UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Marie-Pierre Poirier, said over the w...

In Kenya, this coming Monday marks the start of the new school term and at Dadaab, the largest refugee complex in the world, some 40,000 refugee children are preparing to go to school - many for the first time. The influx of 154,000 new refugees from Somalia this year, more than half of whom are chi...

The United Nations’ refugee agency announced on Saturday that the number of Syrians who have fled their war-torn country and came to Lebanon has reached 779,000.

The installation of a 13 km water pipeline from Kakuma to Kalobeyei settlement will ensure that over 22,000 refugees and Kalobeyei host community have access to clean water and stimulate economic growth and self-reliance for refugees through agriculture. 3 boreholes with a combined output of 114,000...

As at 27 October 2015, statistics from the International Organization for Migration and the Djiboutian government put the number of people of mixed nationalities who have arrived in Djibouti from Yemen since 26 March at 29,487. These include 15,761 Yemeni nationals, as well 11,822 transiting third c...