UNHCR is increasingly concerned about insecurity in and around camps hosting hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa. The situation is particularly worrying, complex and tenuous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents of the Kakuma refugee camp, home to more than 200,000 refugees from across Africa. (© RFI/Anne Macharia) At the Kakuma ...

In June, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said a funding shortfall has compelled it to scale down its operations worldwide. The measure includes some 3,500 staff cuts. In Malawi, where the UNHCR has been ...

With the Trump administration gutting American humanitarian aid to Africa, refugees from war-torn countries have been reduced to literally fighting each other over the scraps of food that remain. At ...

Kenya is among the largest refugee hosts in eastern Africa, with 854,876 people in Kakuma and Dadaab camps and another 200,000 in urban areas.

The new United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees visited Kakuma refugee camp in north-west Kenya on Monday where he ...

South African tourist hotspot Jeffreys Bay has not been declared a refuge for tens of thousands of refugees but false information may stoke Islamophobia ...

The United Nations has warned that civilians are facing growing risks across multiple crisis zones, with funding shortages pushing Ethiopia's refugee response to the brink, while renewed violence in ...

COLCHESTER, Vt. — After surviving refugee camps in Africa, Janine Ndagijimana settled in Vermont and began to dream of farming. When she considered what to plant, she thought back to her time in ...

Two kilometres from the Syrian border, in the acrid Jordanian desert, sits Za’atari refugee camp. When it emerged almost overnight, it quickly expanded into a city of refugees. The camp now houses ...