The recent refugee crisis in the Arab world and Europe has taken the spotlight off sub-Saharan Africa. But a new report by UNHCR reveals that the situation in Africa in 2015 was also grim. Here is a graphical overview. The latest report from the United Nation's refugee agency (UNHCR), titled "G...

Geneva/ Ankara, 9 February 2015 – UNHCR expresses its gratitude for the generosity shown by the Turkish authorities and people towards the Syrian refugees they have been hosting for the last five years. UNHCR appreciates that Turkey is continuing to give access to humanitarian and medical cases desp...

Il y a quinze jours, le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) avait sonné la sonnette d'alarme, estimant que 2,5 millions de personnes soit près de la moitié des Centrafricains souffrent de la faim. L'ONG Solidarité International, qui a notamment des programmes de sécurité alimentaire et de réponse d'...

There are roughly 105,000 refugees in South Sudan's Maban County. Many are at serious health risk. UNHCR and its partners are working vigorously to prevent and contain the outbreak of malaria and several water-borne diseases.

South Sudan refugees in Ethiopia

"If they shoot me & you see I have died you must run, don't cry around me" Grandma Abuk told her grandchildren as they ran for their lives. Years of violence and bloodshed in South Sudan robbed Abuk of her seven children, she is now the sole parent to her grandchildren. When

Since December 2013, conflict in South Sudan has forced 2 million people from their homes. In the north of the country, where fighting is most severe, populations have been pushed to the brink of starvation. Tragically, this war in South Sudan is unlikely to end anytime soon.

For many thousands of South Sudanese, home is now a camp where they live either as internally displaced persons (IDPs) in their own country or abroad, mainly inEthiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya as refugees. Latest figures from the UN's refugee agency UNHCR put the number of refugees outside South...