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Venezuela | 02. Apr 2020

Release frozen Venezuelan funds for Covid-19 response

Venezuelan government and opposition leaders, and their respective backers, should agree to use frozen state assets located in banks around the world to protect the Venezuelan people against the spread of the coronavirus.

Central African Republic | 31. Mar 2020

Just three ventilators to cope with Covid-19 in Central African Republic

Just three ventilators are available to help save the lives of people who contract coronavirus in Central African Republic, a country of almost five million people. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is calling on the international community to support countries, which are gravely unprepared to cope with the spread of the virus.

Sudan | 26. Mar 2020

A new Sudan faces corona with little support

Sudan’s new government shows readiness to rebuild the country and aid agencies want to scale up, but both lack international support to act now.

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Inside NRC camp management center in the outskirts of Kabul city, our staff provides masks to visitors from the camp and also guide them on prevention measures and train them how can they reduce any potential risk of infection to them and their family.

NRC Camp Management is working in 20 settlements consist of 4000 households and 35000 individuals, out of 52 informal settlements in Kabul. Photo: Enayatullah Azad / NRC

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Afghanistan

Displaced people in Kabul are at risk

Al-Ezi Majed, 6, is washing his hands and face from the only water point in Souk Al-Lail camp in Amran city where more than fifty families live.

Photo: Nasser Abdulkareem/NRC

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Coronavirus

Three ways our programmes are fighting coronavirus

FISHERMAN
Suleiman (45 years old) is a fisherman from Al-Hodeidah and now he is an internally displaced person in Ras Emran (Aden). His only income was fishing. Because of the war, he could not continue fishing in Al – Hodeidah after some of his friends were killed by airstrikes, and others were killed in the fish market which was hit by airstrikes several times.

He is afraid to face his friends fate since they were killed without having committed any sins- they were only fishermen. Because of the war, he faced many difficulties in Al-Hodeidah, the high cost of living, no money to buy fishing tools and the fuel for the boat to go out to the sea. Even before the war, his life was difficult and strenuous as he was staying out at sea for many days, but at least it was a safe life. Since the war started - he no longer feels safe.

When the clashes moved closer to the area where he lived, he heard people say that they should store basic food items because they would not be able to get out of their homes. Suleiman has a big family; one wife, 7 children and 2 grandchildren. He stored a few basic food items, which was enough for a few days. After a few days, the food was close to running out so he had to go out and buy some food and store it. He did this three times despite clashes coming to his area.

One day, Suleiman made a tough decision – it was about surviving. He fled with his family, and they left with only the clothes that they were wearing. He sold his wife's jewellery and his animals to pay for transportation and travel expenses. He fled to Ras Emran (Aden) where he could continue work as a fisherman. It took three days to get here.

As an internally displaced person he feels like a stranger in the area that he fled to. He cannot act or live as freely as he used to do in Al-Hodeidah before the war. He doesn't know the condition of his house in Al-Hodaidah. Maybe it was hit by an airstrike or is occupied by someone else. But the most important thing for him is that he and his family are safe.

Currently, Suleiman works together with other fishermen to provide a living for his family. But it is not easy to find enough work. He has a wife, 7 children and 1 grandchild. He works for a daily fee between 3000 to 5000 Yemeni Riyals, and he needs many things for his family to live as he and his family left everything behind when they fled.

Suleiman hopes that the war will end so he can return to his home. So that he can go back to his work. And his children can live in peace and safety like other children in the world and go back to school to finish their education. His message to the international community is to help and stand by Yemeni people in their ordeal and to do their best to stop this war in a peaceful manner and to make Yemen safe and secure for people.

Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

Perspective

Yemen

Losing everything to five years of war

Opinions

In an effort to raise awareness of the necessary hygiene steps to contain the spread of Covid-19, the Camp Management team with support from the WASH team in Herat and Badghis are conducting an awareness raising campaign across displacement sites in Afghanistan.

Global | 26. Mar 2020

Coronavirus will silently hit the world's displaced hardest

Global | 23. Dec 2019

A battle of values will determine the next decade of aid

The refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, is built on sandy hills where there once used to be forests. The hilly landscape is a challenging area to house hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Bangladesh|Myanmar | 06. Dec 2019

Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis is moving backwards. Here’s how to resolve it

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