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Central African Republic | 19. Oct 2018

Where armed groups rule

Over 230,000 people were forced to flee their homes in the Central African Republic (CAR) in the first half of 2018. “It has gone from bad to worse and there are no signs of improvement,” says Eric Batonon, NRC country director.

Sultana, 24, (right in blue) and Hajira, 32, (left in dotted red)

Sultana lost her three months daughter due to cold in one of the IDP settlement in Badghis, Afghanistan. The family have forced to come from Kharistan area to Qala-e-naw city due to sever drought some two months ago.

"My little was fine before we left the village. We came here and slept in the open with only a tarpaulin over our head. My daughter got pneumonia at the beginning and latter she died," said her mother grieving.

"She cries all the day and often comes here to talk to me and forget about her daughter," Hajira mother of five said.

"She lost her daughter due to cold and it made me worried not losing my children," she adds.

Hajira has five children and also a seven months pregnant. She asks for immediate shelter and winterization assistance as winter is looming.

"We can't go back to our home because we can't find even a drop water as all wells and water sources have dried up," she said when we asked if they are planning to go back. Though the family do not have proper shelter in Sanjetak settlement, but they have been provided with water tracking and water tanks.
PHoto: NRC/Enayatullah Azad

Afghanistan | 18. Oct 2018

Displaced by drought: Her daughter froze to death in the desert

AFGHANISTAN/Badghis: Sultana, 24, recently had to bury her youngest daughter, who froze to death in the Afghan desert.

DR Congo | 16. Oct 2018

Hunger levels double in Congo as violence intensifies

15 million women, men and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are without enough food to eat, up from 7.7 million last year. Some people are even joining armed groups and going into prostitution as ways to find money for food.

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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.

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Latin America:

Chased away by violence

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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