The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an alarm on the situation of Eastern African refugees. The UN body says millions of people face serious famine and malnutrition due to the socioeconomic consequences of the coronavirus.
Save the Children is sounding a new alarm over the situation for children in Yemen, where healthcare services were already in crisis due to the conflict and have been further hit by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Yemen has suffered years of civil war, poverty and cholera — and now COVID-19 is also rampant. Aid groups say the country is on the brink of collapse, but an international donor conference hopes to raise billions in aid.
A report published by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) says that there could be increases in asylum applications in the EU in the future. The document highlights that the threat of the novel coronavirus spreading in lower income countries could lead to a rise in migration.
The UNHCR has warned that conflict and serious flooding have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes amid risks of COVID-19 in Somalia.
The UN Refugee Agency has called for emergency funding to implement life-saving assistance programs for nearly one million vulnerable displaced persons and refugees in Yemen who risk losing their shelter and vital cash assistance for essentials like food and medicine.
The United Nations denounced that tens of thousands of desperate people in northwest Syria, where there are currently about four million people, are at risk for famine as they flee due to the conflict between the Syrian government and pro-Turkish fighters.
Children have frozen to death in Syria's Idlib region as Bashar Assad's troops squeeze its 3 million people. The UN said the exodus could be the biggest "humanitarian horror story of the 21st century."
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.
Risk of famine, an unsuccessful peace process, threats to civilian lives and limited humanitarian access are among the consequences of the civil war in South Sudan, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).