Most of UNHCR’s staff are based in the field. Meet Eujin Byun, a communications officer in South Sudan, one of the world’s least safe countries for humanitarians.

On a pale dirt road in the Palorinya refugee camp in northern Uganda, Raida Ijo clung to her 16-year-old son, Charles Abu. They sobbed quietly into each other’s shoulder. They had been separated for 19 months, since the day that fighting broke out between rebels and government troops in their villag...

The Secretary-General welcomes the signing of the Agreement of Outstanding issues on Governance and Responsibility Sharing by the South Sudanese parties in Khartoum, Sudan, on 5 August, as an important step in the revitalization of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (ARCS...

South Sudan's government has reached a power-sharing agreement with the country's main rebel group. This agreement will not collapse and I am sure that it will not collapse because the people of South Sudan have now agreed that they must make peace among themselves," he [ Sudanese Foreign Minister A...

Le Soudan du Sud se dirige peut-être vers un nouvel accord de paix. En attendant, la situation humanitaire est catastrophique : deux millions et demi de réfugiés, près de deux millions de déplacés, pour 12 millions d'habitants. Arnauld Akodjenou, conseiller spécial du HCR sur la situation au Soudan ...

Among thousands of young athletes and participants from all over the world, Lydia, 17, and Dominic, 18, were not representing a country at the IAAF World-U20 Championships in Finland; they ran under the flag of the Athlete Refugee Team, bringing attention to their talent, but also to the global refu...

Tens of thousands of people displaced by the conflict in South Sudan are in “desperate” need of humanitarian assistance and care, says the Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Elhadj As Sy.

Turkana county government and agencies have begun transferring extreme water efficient agriculture techniques to residents and refugee. “We have been given water efficient farming techniques such as sunken beds, wick gardens, sack gardening, and we even grow vegetables in jericans,” said Elizabeth Q...

Over a million people in South Sudan are at risk of severe hunger - again.

From food to furniture, clothing to haircuts, the bustling market in the settlement of Meri in the rural northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a colourful example of refugees’ resourcefulness and how they can contribute to the local economy.