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February 6, 2019

Civilians in Nigeria pay heavy price as armed conflict escalates

A series of attacks in north-east Nigeria’s Borno state have caused the largest wave of displacement since 2017.
January 22, 2019

UN Special Rapporteur expresses alarm at escalating conflict in Myanmar

Seven young people were detained for taking supplies to displaced people at a monastery.
December 18, 2018

Médecins Sans Frontières works to prevent future outbreaks in cholera hotspot

Since early July, Niger has been battling its worst cholera outbreak in years.
November 23, 2018

States have legal obligations to prevent and alleviate climate change, says UN

Human rights are under threat from a force which challenges the foundations of all life, says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
October 5, 2018

EU scales up humanitarian support to Afghanistan as drought takes hold

The European Commission has allocated an additional €20 million in emergency aid to Afghanistan as the humanitarian situation has worsened since the beginning of 2018.
August 26, 2018

Climate change will make devastating floods more common, warns Christian Aid

Christian Aid has warned that more devastating floods in India will become the norm if nothing is done to tackle climate change.
June 7, 2018

WCC promotes Global Day of Prayer to End Famine

The World Council of Churches (WCC), World Evangelical Alliance and All Africa Conference of Churches, along with church-related humanitarian organisations and a coalition of church-related networks and organisations and partners, are promoting 10 June as the second annual Global Day of Prayer to End Famine.
May 25, 2018

Fillipinos still displaced after Marawi conflict

Seven months after the city of Marawi was declared ‘militant free’, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos remain displaced
March 1, 2018

Displaced Iraqis forced to return to destruction left in wake of war on IS

The majority of Iraqis currently displaced in Anbar province by the war against Islamic State (IS) feel safer in camps than back home, aid agencies have warned, amid moves by Iraqi authorities to return thousands of families to their places of origin, at times with fatal consequences.
February 2, 2018

Human cost of South Sudan conflict reaches ‘epic proportions,’ says UN refugee agency chief

The human cost of South Sudan’s long-running conflict has reached “epic proportions” with the number of refugees set to rise beyond three million by the end of this year, potentially making it Africa’s largest refugee crisis since the mid-1990s, says the head of the UN refugee agency.