Former ‘nature beginner’ is now on the front lines of the fight against climate change
By Jenny Barchfield in Guatemala For Joshua, a refugee who fled gang violence, protecting the threatened tropical forests of his host country, Guatemala, has become both a calling and a moral imperative. When he thinks back to his life back before he arrived in...
Millions face harm from flooding across West and Central Africa, UNHCR warns
GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning of surging needs for more than 3.4 million displaced people and their hosts in the face of recent destructive flooding in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Cameroon. Nigeria is facing the worst floods...
Refugee engineers help to build weatherproof shelters for fellow refugees in Sudan
Medhn and Azmera are using their skills to build homes that can withstand the extreme weather in eastern Sudan By Samuel Otieno Odhiambo in Tunaydbah, Sudan Before conflict erupted in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region nearly two years ago, everything was on track for...