For Yemenis on the brink, aid funding gap spells disaster
Already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis after years of conflict and mass displacement, aid cuts due to lack of funds and arrival of COVID-19 put millions of lives at risk. By Shadi Abusneida in Sana’a, Yemen Having suffered through more than five years of...
COVID-19 inflicts hardship on refugees and migrants from Venezuela
Joint UNHCR-IOM Press Release With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening the safety and future of millions of refugees and migrants from Venezuela and their host communities, more than 150 organizations working across 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are...
Nigeria violence sees 23,000 refugees flee into Niger in one month
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. Ongoing violence in parts of north-western Nigeria forced an estimated 23,000 people to...