The head of UNHCR’s Executive Committee, Ambassador Hisham Badr of Egypt, will be visiting refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya starting this Sunday week to see for himself the situation there amid the ongoing crisis in the Horn of Africa. <p>The visit follows High Commissioner António Guterres’ m...

Zoumanga (CAR) – Even though it is 40ºC and there are still two months till the first rains, we are being flooded… with people. We are in Zoumanga, a small village in northern Central African Republic (CAR) and we are carrying out what we call one-shot. In short, it is an intervention that tries to ...

The United Nations Assistant High Commissioner (Protection), Mr. Volker Türk, concluded on Wednesday a two-day visit to Myanmar, during which he called for unrestricted humanitarian access for communities in need, and for the voluntary return of refugees in safety and dignity.

It was the middle of the day when Tabisou, 72, suddenly saw people from her town, Anderamboukane, fleeing for their lives. Her family had no time to pack their things: the fighting had already begun. "Everything I have worked for over my whole life was lost. Just like that," said Tabisou, sitting...