Yemen: UNHCR helps Somali refugees return home
Many Somali refugees have decided to return home from Yemen because of the worsening security situation, the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR reports. Last week, 125 refugees boarded a ship to return to Somalia.
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'Horrific conditions' in Yemen migrant detention camps
Thousands of detained migrants, mostly Ethiopians, are facing serious health risks in Yemen. The UN is calling for the release of the detainees, including several hundred children. There are also concerns that some of the migrants are being forcibly recruited to fight in the civil war.
41,100 displaced by fighting in and near Tripoli, UN
Indiscriminate bombing is continuing, including on residential areas, according to humanitarian agency OCHA. Over 3,000 refugees and migrants are stuck near the frontline.
UN: Libya fighting reached facilities holding thousands of migrants
Nearly three weeks since fighting began near the Libyan capital Tripoli, the United Nations warned that refugees and migrants remain exposed to clashes. According to the UN's refugee agency, some 3,600 of them are trapped in detention centers near the frontline.
Libya: UN urges immediate halt to fighting
An escalation of fighting in Libya is threatening to turn into "an all-out conflict," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned. An airstrike near Tripoli has shut down the capital's only functioning airport.
Libya: The road from revolution to civil war
Eight years since a NATO-led intervention helped oust Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is mired in civil war involving multiple armed groups and rival governments pitted against each other. DW explains the basics of the conflict.
Nigeria: Emergency is far from over - MSF
The humanitarian emergency in Nigeria "is far from over," according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). People continue to be displaced due to violence in the northeast and rely on humanitarian assistance to survive.
Eritrea: 'I just sometimes wonder who is left inside the country.'
Hundreds of people continue to pour out of Eritrea every day into neighboring Ethiopia. The reopening of the border in September and the peace deal ending two decades of war have raised hopes in some quarters of an improved human rights situation in Eritrea. But the head of the world's largest Muslim charity, Naser Haghamed, who fled the country as a young teenager, worries that it will be crippled by the ongoing exodus.
IOM expects migrant arrivals to hit 150,000 in Yemen
In spite of the ongoing civil war, the number of migrants arriving in Yemen has increased significantly. The UN Migration Agency IOM is concerned that more and more migrants will find themselves exposed to violence and danger without any protection.
Yemen: NGO reports 'resignation' in Hodeidah
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has reported that "the mood in Hodeidah" in Yemen "is one of resignation." The city is still torn by violence while food and primary goods are increasingly less accessible.
Libya: half a million children at risk in Tripoli
UNICEF has reported that half a million children continue to be at risk in Tripoli due to violence that started on August 27. "The increasing violence in Tripoli, Libya is endangering thousands of children. Eight kids were killed over the past weeks and thousands of families have been displaced," said the executive director of UNICEF, Henrietta Ford, on Twitter.
IOM indefinitely postpones repatriations from Hodeida
The UN's International Organization for Migration has announced that it has postponed until further notice voluntary repatriations from the Yemeni port city of Hodeida, due to violence that has been going on there for nearly two weeks.