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Despite COVID-19 school closures, refugees continue to study and sit for finals
news UNHCR, 11 Sep 2020 (4 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. -
Displaced Mozambicans volunteer to support outreach efforts by aid agencies
news UNHCR, 03 Mar 2021 (3 years ago )UNHCR has mobilized displaced people to help reach others within their communities and better attend to their most pressing needs. -
Displaced people in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado plead for peace – UNHCR, 01 March 2024
news UNHCR, 04 Mar 2024 (9 months ago )In Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, every day is a fight for survival. For the past seven years, people have endured violent attacks and witnessed their loved ones being killed, mutilated, and raped, and their homes and businesses burned to the ground. -
Displaced people join efforts to adapt to climate change in Mozambique – UNHCR, 10 November 2022
news UNHCR, 11 Nov 2022 (2 years ago )On 11 March 2022, Cyclone Gombe made landfall on Mozambique’s coast, before moving inland and blazing a trail of destruction through the provinces of Nampula and Zambezia. Winds reached up 190 kilometres per hour, mowing down swathes of houses, schools, roads, and bridges, and flooding farmlands. Fr... -
Escalating violence leaves hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands on the move in eastern DRC
news UNHCR, 24 Jan 2023 (1 year ago )This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Eujin Byun – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. -
Every child needs a birth certificate
news UNHCR, Mail & Guardian, 13 Nov 2020 (4 years ago )More than a million children are born in our country each year and are issued birth certificates. But estimates are that another 100 000 children are not registered at birth in South Africa, setting them up for a lifetime of exclusion, disadvantage, and de facto statelessness -
Farming together fosters ties between Burundian refugees and their Congolese hosts – UNHCR, 05 October
news UNHCR, 05 Oct 2022 (2 years ago )After finding sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundian refugees are sharing their knowledge of farming with locals. -
Fear and loss stalk Mozambicans fleeing insurgent violence
news UNHCR, 22 Mar 2021 (3 years ago )Some 670,000 people forced from their homes in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province in a crisis that has failed to hold the world’s attention. -
Fear and loss stalk Mozambicans fleeing insurgent violence
news UNHCR, 22 Mar 2021 (3 years ago )Some 670,000 people forced from their homes in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province in a crisis that has failed to hold the world’s attention. -
Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo forces 11,000 to flee to Uganda
news UNHCR, 09 Nov 2021 (3 years ago )This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Shabia Mantoo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. An upsurge of fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has forced at least 11,000 people to flee across the b...