Emergency funding to help hundreds of thousands of refugees in Uganda will run out next month unless more support comes in, a United Nations agency said on Monday.

Country and region at 'pivotal moment' as violence grows

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says that more than two million Syrian refugees and internally displaced people have returned home since the fall of the government of Bashar Assad i...

UNHCR’s Global Trends report provides the official global figures on the number of refugees, IDPs, stateless people and returns. View the latest report and data.

The U.N. refugee agency says the number of people forcible displaced by violence and persecution around the world has risen to more than 122 million, up by about 2 million from last year and a near-do...

GENEVA - Over 165,000 people have fled increasing tensions and conflict in South Sudan in the past three months, seeking safety both within the country and across borders and deepening an already dire...

A dire humanitarian situation in Myanmar and Bangladesh may have led to deaths of an estimated 427 Rohingya refugees at sea, the United Nation's refugee agency said on Friday.

At least seven people were killed and 20 injured in an attack on a hospital and market in South Sudan on Saturday, a medical charity has said, as worries mount that the country could return to all out...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply saddened by the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Catholics around the world and to all those mourning the loss of a ...

This statement is attributable to Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, marking two years since the outbreak of conflict in Sudan. Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid...

A United Nations official in Sudan says at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, have been killed in a two-day offensive by a notorious paramilitary group.

Returning home is a personal decision that should be fully informed, voluntary and take place in conditions of safety and dignity.

A massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on 28 March with its epicentre near the country’s second largest city of Mandalay, resulting in widespread loss of life, injury and destructio...

The UN issues a stark warning following fighting between the army and the White army militia.

Frontline communities continue to suffer the dire consequences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine for a fourth year.

As fighting continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the humanitarian situation is fast deteriorating in neighbouring Burundi, with daily arrivals increasing through its no...

Eastern DRC Displacement Overview - 20 February 2025

GENEVA - Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are facing an unprecedented catastrophe, enduring grave violations, including summary executions, sexual violence, recruitment and abduc...

Between 10,000 and 15,000 people have crossed into Burundi over the last few days, fleeing escalating tension and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Nearly two years of conflict have fueled a catastrophic protection crisis and displaced a staggering 12 million people in Sudan and across borders.

You can help people forced to flee violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is alarmed by the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the continued lack of access to displaced people hampers...

After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a generation, setting off troubling regional tensions.

Ukrainian volunteers are going house to house in Pokrovsk as Russian drones hunt from the skies.

Officials describe ‘tsunami of people’ in city of Cúcuta escaping one of worst outbreaks of violence in recent years

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Islamic State militants have rampaged across the northern Cabo Delgado Province for more than seven years. The government says the situation has stabilized. Residents tell a different story.

The United States just formally declared that genocide has taken place in the northeast African nation, but the calamity there dates back decades.

GENEVA – Post-election unrest in Mozambique has forced thousands of people to flee their homes. In Malawi, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the government have identified around 2,000 who crossed int...