“We have nothing”: South Sudanese refugees, fleeing a second civil war in Sudan, return home to bleak prospects
TONNY ONYULO, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports…
In shadow of conflict nearby, rebel upsurge hits Congo’s Ituri
Kigonze Camp, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters Marie Dzedza has lost hope of leaving a displaced people’s camp and returning to her village in the eastern Congolese province of Ituri, where rebel violence is surging while regional attention focuses on a conflict in a neighbouring territory. Five years ago, Dzedza lost both her hands in […]
In Syria, mounting cholera cases pose threat across frontlines
Idlib/Hasaka, SyriaReuters A cholera outbreak that has claimed at least 29 lives in Syria is posing a danger across the frontlines of the country’s 11-year-long war, stirring fears in crowded camps for the displaced who lack running water or sewage systems. First linked to contaminated water near the Euphrates river, the outbreak has now spread across the fractured […]
At least 60 people killed in militia attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters At least 60 people were killed in a militia attack early on Wednesday at a displaced persons’ camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the head of a local humanitarian group and a camp resident. Both sources told Reuters that the CODECO militia was responsible for the […]
Aid workers say Ethiopia air strike in north-west Tigray killed 56 people
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaReuters An air strike in Ethiopia’s Tigray region killed 56 people and injured 30, including children, in a camp for displaced people, two aid workers told Reuters on Saturday, citing local authorities and eyewitness accounts. Military spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane and government spokesman Legesse Tulu did not immediately respond to requests for comment. […]
Nigerians displaced by insurgency fear being forced to return home
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Hauwa Ahmadu Kukuda rakes straw from the top of the two-room shack she shares with eight children. Goats jostle for it as the children crouch next to tarp-covered walls. Outside, row after dusty row stretches for miles in the Bakassi camp in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, which houses […]
Postcards: Staying home means starving to death for millions displaced in Yemen
AMAL MAMOON reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation from the al-Kadaha camp for displaced people in Taiz, Yemen…