Countries: Mauritania, Mali. Mauritania is one of the principal refugee-hosting countries in West Africa. As of July 2026, the country hosts an estimated 305,000 refugees and asylum-seekers, the overwhelming majority of whom have fled insecurity and conflict in neighbouring Mali. While most refugee
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. Highlights In Gaza city, 21 people, including 12 children, were reportedly killed, and dozens more injured, when a war-damaged residential building collapsed on 16 September; many remain in unsafe buildings for lack of better housing arrangements. Search and rescue operations a...
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. "Nearly 130,000 people have been forced from their homes in just a few weeks. Many have already moved more than once to find safety," said Othman Belbeisi, IOM Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. “The numbers keep climbing. On 18 September we recorded 118,08...
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.1 million people have returned to their areas of origin in Sudan, while 8.6 million remain displaced, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today. Many are going back to a country still wracked by conflict, where damaged homes, schools and clinics cannot meet t...
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. Data by Insecurity Insight shows that since fighting started between the SAF and RSF in April 2023 and 31 August 2026 at least 786 incidents of violence against or obstruction of access to health care took place across Sudan: health facilities were damaged 224 times 219 health ...
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. Uganda hosts the largest refugee population in Africa, nearly 2 million as of January 2026. People displaced continue to arrive, predominantly from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Sudan. Alongside this, cuts in humanitarian funding have placed furth...
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Countries: Romania, Ukraine . Highlight On 16 September, UNHCR Romania inaugurated the Sadako Ogata Conference Room at the UNHCR’s Community Centre for refugees at RomExpo in Bucharest in the presence of H.E. Mr. Takashi Katae, Ambassador of Japan to Romania, Ms. Luminița Odobesc...
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Countries: Chad, Sudan .
