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Despite COVID-19 school closures, refugees continue to study and sit for finals
news UNHCR, 11 Sep 2020 (3 years ago )Jean Aimé Mozokombo has moved his classes outside. The Congolese teacher is among several dedicated teachers who have been keeping over 600 students busy since schools closed due to COVID-19. -
Central African refugees make soap to help fight COVID-19
news UNHCR, 28 Aug 2020 (4 years ago )In northern DRC, refugees from the Central African Republic are finding ways to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic while improving their livelihoods. -
Live blog: This World Refugee Day, everyone can make a difference
news UNHCR, 20 Jul 2020 (4 years ago )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. -
UNHCR and WFP warn refugees in Africa face hunger and malnutrition as COVID-19 worsens food shortages
news UNHCR, 09 Jul 2020 (4 years ago )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. -
UNHCR appalled at rising violence against displaced in eastern DRC
news UNHCR, 30 Jun 2020 (4 years ago )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). -
South Sudanese refugees make tippy taps to promote hygiene in DRC camps
news UNHCR, 10 Jun 2020 (4 years ago )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. -
As COVID-19 and conflict surge, DR Congo displaced face deadly consequences of chronic underfunding
news UNHCR, 09 Jun 2020 (4 years ago )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. -
Surging violence uproots thousands of people in eastern Congo
news UNHCR, 08 May 2020 (4 years ago )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. -
Mobile money helps displaced Congolese survive amid coronavirus threat
news UNHCR, 07 May 2020 (4 years ago )Two months ago, Solonita, 59, fled with her son when armed men attacked her village in east Democratic Republic of the Congo. -
Massive floods in DRC’s South Kivu impact 80,000 people, kill dozens
news UNHCR, 21 Apr 2020 (4 years ago )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).