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Burkina Faso’s Growing Food Insecurity Highlights Need For New Refugee Policy Approach

At the end of March, India delivered a consignment of 1,000 metric tonnes of rice to Burkina Faso to support its humanitarian efforts. This story is written and edited by Global South World Data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) shows that Burkina Faso hosts around 2,062,534 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and close […]

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Ethiopian protesters holding flags during a rally.

Tigray Hunger Crisis Reveals Deep Scars Left By Ethiopia’s Civil War

Data from the Tigray Social Affairs Office indicate that more than 1,300 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have died over the last three years as a result of hunger and limited access to medicine. This story is written and edited by Global South World “The situation is getting worse,” cautions Gebreselassie Tareke, the office’s Director. This highlights […]

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Refugees receiving food aid at a crowded distribution point in Nigeria.

Nigeria’s Escalating IDP Crisis Calls For Solutions Beyond Emergency Aid For 3.7 Million People

Contributed by Global South World According to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, internally displaced persons (IDPs) are “persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the […]

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Refugees in South Sudan seek urgent humanitarian assistance amid ongoing conflict in Sudan.

ForAfrika Gearing Up To Help To Alleviate A Growing Humanitarian Crisis As People Flee To South Sudan From Conflict-ridden Sudan

ForAfrika is gearing up to provide humanitarian assistance to thousands of people fleeing to South Sudan, where it has its largest office, from the conflict that erupted in Sudan almost two weeks ago. We join the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in its concern that a large, unplanned number of new returns will […]

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Canyon in Mauritania highlighting arid terrain and rugged landscape.

Mauritania’s Humanitarian Crisis Requires An Innovative Approach

Innovation is key when you live in a country where the advancement of desert sands is beginning to encroach on homes and livelihoods, and drought is causing what the United Nations has referred to as “a horrendous food crisis”. Together with Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger, Mauritania is a nation situated in the Sahel […]

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People in Mozambique facing insurgency and humanitarian challenges.

Long-Haul SADC Action Needed To Counter Mozambican Insurgency And Humanitarian Crisis

Ongoing insecurity and an unfolding humanitarian crisis in northern Mozambique need a strategically planned response to deal decisively with the insurgency that has plagued the area since October 2017. The insurgents, known both as Al Sunnah wa Jama’ah (ASWJ) and the Islamic State Central Africa Province, have displaced more than 745 000 people. “In northern […]

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