Close to 200,000 Yazidis remain displaced

"When the Islamic State group attacked our village, we fled. We stayed on Sinjar mountain for eight days. I saw children and older people die from thirst and exhaustion."

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Where armed groups rule

Central African Republic: Intense violence and insecurity is part of everyday life of many Central Africans. Nearly 70 per cent of the country’s territory is controlled by armed groups.

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Syrian refugee girls married at the age of 13

Child marriage is a global phenomenon, but the number of young girls forced to marry at a young age is higher among families that have been forced to flee their homes. During the time you’ll spend reading this article, 230 more girls under 18 will have been married off.

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Yemen crisis

Having returned to Norway from war-tornYemen, NRC’s Becky Bakr Abdulla recounts her impressions from one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, a country experiencing daily bombings and a complete economic collapse.

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The world's most neglected displacement crises

Some humanitarian crises receive less attention and funding than others. Every year, we present a list of the top ten countries that the world has forgotten.

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Overcrowding leading to poor sanitary conditions in #IDPs camps and communities contributes to further #cholera outbreak in #Borno #Nigeria. We’re calling on authorities to expand access to more land for construction of latrines, bathing houses, boreholes and water points to end the disease.

Nigeria | 12. Nov 2018

Urgent need for improved hygiene facilities to combat cholera outbreaks

The number of people who have been affected by cholera in northeast Nigeria has increased to 10,000. The disease is spreading quickly in congested displacement camps with limited access to proper sanitation facilities, warned the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

Central African Republic | 08. Nov 2018

International neglect of Central African Republic will lead to new catastrophe

“The international response in the Central African Republic is a recipe for failure. The humanitarian and political neglect will throw the country back into renewed cycles of violence,” warned Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland, who is visiting the country.

When Philippe had returned with his family to his home in Berberati, western Central African Republic, he found it occupied by Khaltouma and Mamatsouk who had also been displaced by violence. There are now 15 people living in the same house. Refugees and internally displaced persons who fled attacks of armed groups in 2014 are now slowly returning to Berberati. Some return to find to their homes occupied. Through dialogue and mediation facilitated by NRC, some returnees regain access to their home but solutions should also be found to the secondary occupants who accept to vacate the home. In some cases, the owner will allow the secondary occupants to stay as Philippe did with Khaltouma and Mamatsouk.

Credit: Hajer Naili/ NRC

Central African Republic | 07. Nov 2018

Compassion in times of war

When Philippe and his family returned home four years after they fled, they found two people living in their house.

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Global displacement overview

Africa

Conflict, violence and drought forces millions to flee.

The global displacement figures

Yet again, the scope of displacement and subsequent humanitarian crises is at an all-time high.

Asia

Hundreds of thousands have fled from violence in Myanmar and Afghanistan

America

Trump turns the screws on refugees.

The Middle East

Civilians bear the brunt of international power play

Europe

Refugees are meeting closed doors

The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across 31 countries, where we help save lives and rebuild futures.

Perspectives

NRC teams at the Adra IDP Centre in Damascus responding to the massive influx of IDPs from Eastern Ghouta. The influx was sudden, with high numbers of children, together with women, men, youth and elderly persons.

Photo: NRC

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Syria

Delivering the aid

A US aircraft carrying some of the 238 Honduran deported immigrants is pictured at the tarmac of the Ramon Villeda Morales airport, in San Pedro Sula, 200 kilometres north of Tegucigalpa, on June 22, 2018.
238 Honduran citizens deported from the US arrived on Friday back to their country. According to their testimony they travelled hand, foot and waist chained. / AFP PHOTO / ORLANDO SIERRA

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Latin America:

The airline passengers who risked it all

Sangamai Teka, 41, walks to the small plot of land where she plants "ndembe" (red beans). She and several other female farmers who were displaced during the Greater Kasai conflict of 2016-2017 have returned to less than they had before. Many of these women have lost children and spouses to the conflict. All of them struggle to make a living to sustain their families.

Over 1 million people have returned to their homes in Kasai-Central after a year of violent conflict within the province and across the Greater Kasai Region. Unfortunately, people who have returned have found their homes and fields pillaged and burned to the ground. These farming communities have no shelter, no food to eat and no means of sustaining any viable livelihood.

Earlier this year, NRC visited Mbulungu and Bakuakashila, two villages ravaged by the regional conflict in 2017. NRC used its “community-based approach” by consulting with these communities to better understand their primary needs, to properly target the most vulnerable people and facilitate their ability to choose the assistance they require.

This intervention, however, is only a drop in the ocean of the vast needs of this community. NRC is currently the only humanitarian actor in the zone and funding is not enough to address other acute needs such as food assistance, household items and education. The Humanitarian Response Plan is currently only 25 per cent funded eight months into the year. Humanitarian capacity is critically low. If donors do not act now for the people of Mbulungu and for the rest of DR Congo, it will be too late.

August 29, 2018- Kasai-Central Province, DR Congo
Photo : NRC/Aléxis Huguet

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DR Congo

Braving the run

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Violence in Honduras

"Elena's" sorrow

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