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Sep

06

2024

Yemen: Needs grow for millions displaced amid catastrophic flooding and prolonged humanitarian emergency

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is warning that millions of displaced Yemenis face worsening conditions as Yemen’s prolonged crisis deepens. This is according to the findings of the latest UNHCR assessment. UNHCR’s Internally Displaced Persons Protection Monitoring Update, issued this week, reveals a grim picture of the conditions affecting Yemen’s displaced and host communities. The data, collected from over 47,000 households in the first half of 2024, offers insights into the struggles of internally displaced people (IDPs), returnees and host community members. Among these households, a significant number reside in formal and informal IDP sites, reflecting the ongoing displacement crisis. Away from…

Aug

29

2024

By The African Mirror

UNHCR concerned about impact of Mpox on refugees, displaced

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Without additional, urgent support, the recently declared mpox outbreak could become devastating for refugees and displaced communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and other impacted countries in Africa, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns today. In DRC’s South Kivu Province, one of the regions hardest hit by mpox, at least 42 suspected cases have been identified amongst the refugee population. Confirmed and suspected cases have also been recorded among the refugee populations in the Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are over 18,000 suspected cases and 615 deaths to…

May

05

2024

By The African Mirror

Rains in southern Brazil kill at least 39, some 70 still missing

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HEAVY rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed 39 people, local authorities said, and the death toll is expected to rise as dozens still have not been accounted for. Rio Grande do Sul's civil defence authority said 68 people were still missing and at least 24,000 had been displaced as the storms affected more than half of the 497 cities in the state, which borders Uruguay and Argentina. "These numbers can still materially change over the following days as we gain access to more regions", Rio Grande do Sul Governor Eduardo Leite told reporters. In…

Jul

13

2023

By The African Mirror

Number of displaced by Sudan war surpasses 3 million, International Organization for Migration says

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THE number of people uprooted by a conflict between military factions in Sudan that erupted nearly three months ago has surpassed 3 million, according to estimates from the International Organization for Migration. More than 2.4 million people have been displaced internally and more than 730,000 have crossed into neighbouring countries, data published late on Tuesday said. Most have fled either from the capital Khartoum, the focus of the power struggle between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that broke out on April 15, or from Darfur, where ethnically-targeted violence has surged. U.N. officials have said Sudan could slide…

Feb

05

2023

By The African Mirror

Pope offers ‘wings to your hope’ to displaced children in South Sudan

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PHILIP PULLELLA and ESTELLE SHIRBON POPE Francis met South Sudanese children displaced by conflict and heard of the hardships of their lives in camps, telling them they would build a better future for the world's newest country by replacing ethnic hatred with forgiveness. The pope was visiting South Sudan with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Church of Scotland Moderator Iain Greenshields - an unprecedented joint "pilgrimage of peace". The three men led about 50,000 people in an open-air ecumenical prayer vigil at dusk at a mausoleum for South Sudan's liberation hero John Garang, who died in a helicopter crash in…

Jan

27

2023

By The African Mirror

Pope’s Africa visit: Sudan’s displaced hope for peace

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WAAKHE SIMON WUDU AFTER spending nearly a decade in a camp for the displaced in South Sudan's Juba, Mayen Galuak hopes that Pope Francis' visit to the capital city next week will inspire political leaders to finally restore peace, allowing him to go home. The 44-year-old entered the United Nations camp, just a few kilometres from his residence, in search of safety three days after conflict broke out in 2013. In the ensuing years, he has watched as South Sudan's leaders forged peace deals and broke them; as militias carried out and denied ethnic massacres; and as relentless conflict pushed…

Jul

29

2021

By The African Mirror

U.S. cities offer displaced Black families the ‘right to return’

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CAREY L. BIRON THE way Robbie Jones sees it, the big infrastructure projects that reworked the face of her California hometown a half-century ago included a pointed message for minority communities. During the 1950s and 1960s, whole neighbourhoods in Santa Monica were forced to move to make way for what was called urban renewal projects, including a civic centre and freeway. "That whole community, predominantly African American residents, were uprooted, and their homes later ... burned to the ground," the 63-year-old activist and historian told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. "To me, that was sending a message," she said,…