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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported that the number of refugees in Libya exceeded 100,000 as of October 2025, with Sudanese nationals accounting for the largest share at approximately 84,400. Other refugee groups include 8,900 Eritreans, 2,300 Ethiopians, 1,900 South Sudanese, and around 5,300 Syrians, according to CNN’s coverage of the […]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has issued a poignant plea for the protection of civilians trapped in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, where over 500 lives have been lost in just three harrowing weeks. The region, long scarred by conflict, has once again become the epicenter of violence, […]
In a further escalation of hostilities, M23 rebels have seized the town of Minova in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a trade hub and key supply route for the provincial capital of Goma. The Congolese army acknowledged that the rebels had made “breakthroughs” in the towns of Minova and […]
Morocco’s permanent mission pointed out during the 75th session of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which concluded its works in Geneva on Friday, that the situation in Tindouf camps in Algeria contradicts the UNHCR’s general mandate. The mission, while reiterating its commitment to the noble humanitarian mandate entrusted to this […]
A new record 120 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide due to conflict, violence, and persecution, according to a recent United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) report. The overall number of refugees reached a whopping 117.3 million people as of the end of 2023, representing a significant increase from the previous year. This figure has […]
The UN refugee agency UNHCR urged concrete actions to avert forced displacement in the war-ravaged Sahel, warning of a deteriorating humanitarian crisis. Nearly 3.3 million people were forced to flee their homes in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger due to increasing terrorist activity, exacerbated by drought, the UNHCR said in a statement. “The security situation […]
Conflicts in Sudan and across the Sahel region have compromised protection for migrants who continue to face “unimaginable horrors” on major migration routes to Europe, according to new report from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Although the location of the major migration routes is well known, no immediate assistance, shelter or information about the dangers […]
“If we don’t act now,” the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in the Sahel will “become a problem for the world,” a senior UNHCR official has warned, echoing a senior UNICEF official that has condemned a “distressing” 70% rise in grave violence against children in several strife-torn countries in the region plagued by jihadists and […]
The Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, located in southern Algeria, are a time bomb threatening the security and stability of the whole region, said Ivory Coast newspaper ‘Le Mandat’. In a story published Thursday on the growing terrorist threats in the Sahel-Sahara, the daily said the region is already facing serious challenges, namely terrorism which claimed hundreds […]
At least 15 people were killed and thousands displaced as the M23 rebel group on Wednesday (6 March) seized a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from government forces amid escalating violence in the country’s conflict-hit region. As the tutsi-led ‘March 23 Movement’ (M23) rebels took over the town of Nyanzale in eastern […]