Libya: humanitarian crisis worsening amid deepening conflict and COVID-19 threat
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. One year since the launch of a military offensive in Tripoli, Libya, fighting is...
Scouts take refugee solidarity online during coronavirus crisis
The worldwide movement of Scouts has long supported UNHCR. Now that support is being renewed and deepened, even in the face of the COVID-19 crisis. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg in London Every year, young people in the global scouting movement gather for days of action....
UNHCR expresses alarm over insecurity in Burkina Faso
Attacks by armed groups force Malian refugees to leave camp and return home while coronavirus adds new element of insecurity to Sahel crisis By UNHCR staff in Geneva and Bamako, Mali UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today expressed alarm over growing insecurity in...