A long queue snakes its way through Cacanda reception centre as people wait patiently to receive their monthly food rations of maize meal, cooking oil and beans. An average of 4,500 people queue daily to receive food and other items like blankets, mosquito nets, buckets and solar lamps. The distr...

In Mauritania, a Congolese mother is helping refugees to reconnect by teaching IT, 17 years after her own displacement. The city of Nouakchott, Mauritania, is no stranger to refugees. Around 1,500 people who have fled some of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts now call it home. One of them, Budiaki*, i...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by a recent surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is driving large numbers of Congolese to flee eastwards to neighbouring Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda.

Al Jazeera travels Lake Albert, on the DR Congo-Uganda border, to meet some of the refugees who have fled violence in Congo.

Lake Albert has become ground zero for thousands of Congolese families escaping fierce fighting into Uganda.

79.600 candidats prennent part aux épreuves du baccalauréat de l’enseignement du second degré, session de juillet 2018, dans 94 centres, malgré la grève lancée depuis le 28 mai par la plateforme syndicale qui paralyse le secteur éducatif.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has donated an ambulance to the Ministry of Health through the Office of the Commissioner for Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Nchelenge District in Luapula Province. The donation will support the effective and timely health service delivery among the 15,553 C...

Over 300,000 refugees living in Tanzania are accessing crucial health services thanks to funding by IrishAid, the Government of Ireland’s official agency for international development. This vital donor support, is helping UNHCR facilitate access for refugees to primary healthcare and reproductive he...

Empowering vulnerable Congolese refugees in Uganda through cash. The money is from a six-months unconditional cash transfer project now in its fourth month of implementation by the Danish Refugee Council. The project is funded by the European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) and th...

After being displaced by conflict in the DRC, Congolese refugee resumes his calling as a teacher, imparting knowledge to refugee students