UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Food Programme (WFP) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters – as well as supply chain challenges, rising food prices and loss of income due to COVID19 - threaten to leave millions of refugees across Africa without food.

Millions across the African continent are taking part in events celebrating World Refugee Day at a time when global unity has never been more important.

Displaced people and host communities all over the African continent are at heightened risk as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed at the increasing number of violent attacks on displaced civilians by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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.

Massive funding gaps are threatening hundreds of thousands of lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where surging violence and COVID-19 are exacerbating already dire conditions for millions of forcibly displaced people.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, remains alarmed at an ongoing surge in violent attacks on local populations in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where more than 200,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in just two months.

Two months ago, Solonita, 59, fled with her son when armed men attacked her village in east Democratic Republic of the Congo.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is working with local authorities and partners to immediately assist some 80,000 people affected by heavy floods in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

In northern DRC, refugees from the Central African Republic are finding ways to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic while improving their livelihoods.