In Buchagara settlement, North Kivu, UNHCR and partners completed the construction of 3,000 shelters for vulnerable families. Similarly, in North and South Ubangi, UNHCR and partners built 790 transitional shelters, including shelters for individuals with special needs. The building process was supp...

Une délégation de sept refugies et déplacés internes, soutenus par le Haut-Commissariat pour les Refugies, a eu une audience avec le Pape François le 1er février pour partager leurs souffrances, leurs peines ainsi que leurs aspirations à un futur meilleur. Venus des divers horizons du pays et issus...

As Lidia Ajuwa, 30, walks down the hill into Kibarizo, a remote village in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province, she is greeted with smiles as she passes rows of small, grass-thatched houses. Hers is a familiar and friendly face in a region that for years has grappled w...

In eastern DRC where incessant conflict has displaced millions, UNHCR is working with grassroots organizations to provide legal and psychosocial aid to communities. Thousands of women and children like Rosette who have been forcibly displaced by the ongoing conflict in north-eastern DRC are often e...

UNHCR is training women in the DRC to learn useful skills that enhance their self-reliance while challenging gender stereotypes. Therese draws a small crowd of curious onlookers as she kneels before the rusty, broken-down engine of a truck parked near her house in the outskirts of Kananga in the Dem...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for urgent and enhanced measures to protect civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where a series of recent attacks by an armed group has displaced nearly 20,000 people in North Kivu province. Armed groups continue to devastate civilian...

As more families flee the DRC’s Beni Territory, shelter needs are mounting – over 100,000 families who have found safety in North Kivu urgently need a place to stay.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi meets with refugees from the Central Africa Republic in Modale site, in the North Ubangi Province, DRC. He is seen here giving a registration refugee card to a young refugee who was just relocated from the boder area in Yakoma to the new Modale site. ...

As insecurity in the Central African Republic (CAR) has displaced more than 200,000 people within the country and in neighbouring states in less than two months, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that tens of thousands are facing dire conditions. Refugee arrivals into the Democratic Republ...

A plastic jerrycan filled with water rests snugly between the trunks of a small tree in front of Ferida’s shelter in Bele settlement, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Haut Uele Province.