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Costa Rica’s solidarity with refugees threatened by major funding cuts, warns UNHCR
As humanitarian needs reach critical levels in Costa Rica, due to continuing displacement from Nicaragua, a 41 per cent funding cut is seriously impacting the ability of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to provide assistance to forcibly displaced people in the country.
UNHCR and partners urgently seek funding as Congolese refugee numbers soar
As the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo worsens, UNHCR and 107 partners are appealing for $781 million to provide urgent support in 2025 to over 1 million Congolese refugees and asylum-seekers in neighboring countries and local communities across seven countries.
UNHCR warns of soaring protection needs amid Sudanese influx to Chad from Darfur
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned by the rapidly increasing number of Sudanese refugees crossing into eastern Chad, with nearly 20,000 people – mostly exhausted and traumatized women and children – arriving in the past two weeks alone.