A Congolese asylum-seeker holds her six-month-old child in Zombo, Uganda, close to border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), July 2020. © UNHCR/Rocco […]
Year: 2020
UNHCR warns 2020 risks lowest resettlement levels in recent history
Thirteen-year-old Syrian refugee Bakr works in a supermarket and delivers food to support his family in Barja, Lebanon. The family are awaiting resettlement to Norway. […]
UNHCR Ethiopia Fact Sheet, September 2020
Ethiopia is one of the largest refugee-hosting countries in Africa, sheltering 792,030 registered refugees and asylum seekers as of 30 September 2020. The overwhelming majority […]
UNHCR assisting displaced families affected by floods in the Sahel
People carry their belongings in a street flooded by the Niger River in the Kirkissoye neighbourhood in Niamey, Niger, on August 27, 2020. © AFP/Boureima […]
Floods drive over 650,000 Somalis from their homes in 2020
Somalis driven from the Lower Shabelle region by fear of airstrikes sit under a tree at a site for internally displaced people near Mogadishu, March […]
UNHCR and WFP warn refugees in Africa face hunger and malnutrition as COVID-19 worsens food shortages
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the World Food Program (WFP) are warning that severe underfunding, conflict and disasters – as well as supply chain […]
2020 World Refugee Day Statement by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
After taking a virtual soap-making course, Syrian refugee Midia Said Sido has been making soap at home for her children and other refugees in her […]
UNHCR Global COVID-19 Emergency Response, 24 April 2020
Highlights ■ As of 22 April, according to WHO, more than 200 countries and territories have confirmed COVID-19 infections, including many fragile states. Thus far, […]
UN Refugee Agency steps up COVID-19 preparedness, prevention and response measures
A young girl wears a protective mask in Dhaka, Bangladesh. © Ritzau Scanpix Geneva, 10 March 2020 – The world’s response to the COVID-19 crisis […]