UNICEF and partners working with Senegalese authorities on emergency plans to support displaced children in host communities DAKAR, 19 January 2017 – As the Gambia faces an uncertain political transition, the situation raises concerns for the nearly 26,000 people – half of them children – who hav...

Chad is facing interconnected humanitarian crises in a context of chronic poverty and low economic development. The security situation in neighboring countries has led to large population movements into Chad, as well as internal displacement for several years. Millions of people are affected by f...

Aid groups urgently need $77m (£58m) to help Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since violence erupted two weeks ago, the UN says. About 290,000 Rohingya are said to have fled Rakhine state and sought shelter in Bangladesh since 25 August. There is a desperate need for food, wat...

Fleeing a fresh wave of violence and killings in Central African Republic, tens of thousands of refugees have sought safety across the border in southern Chad. Once there, living in tarpaulin tents or makeshift shelters of wood and straw, many have set up small businesses in their local host vill...

As thousands more flee violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia is now facing a growing humanitarian crisis.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, working with the Brazilian Government and partners is ramping up the humanitarian response for the growing number of Venezuelans arriving in the north of the country with increasing needs.

YANGON—the government has agreed to meet the Northern Alliance, a coalition of four ethnic armed groups, as a single entity for peace talks, according to U Hsan Awng of the Peace-talk Creation Group (PCG), a Kachin-based organization that helps to broker meetings between the government, Myanmar Army...

After an arduous journey to safety, two-month-old Andrii is among the youngest of more than 2 million refugees from Ukraine, but his aunt already looks forward to the day he can return.