Refugees in Uganda: Funding shortfall forces cut to UN food rations
Over 1 million refugees in Uganda will face reduced food rations as a lack of international funding forces the UN World Food Programme to cut its relief program.
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Millions of Eastern African refugees risk starvation, WFP
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.
WFP launches seasonal support for 1 million people in Mali
The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a seasonal support project for one million people including internally displaced persons, refugees, returnees, and vulnerable families experiencing food insecurity in Mali.
Migrants in Albania: Begging for food, hiding from violence
According to an investigation by the magazine Balkan Insight, increasing numbers of migrants in Albania are being left hungry and frightened in state-run facilities. They are reduced to begging on the streets to get by.
Italian NGO calls for migrant protection amid coronavirus
The Italian migrant aid organization Linea d'Ombra has called for immediate assistance for migrants and the homeless amid the Covid-19 emergency. Between 50 and 100 people gathered in a square in the city of Trieste every day without "shelter, food, or water," the NGO warned.
Volunteering at the food bank: Anas Mustafa's way of giving back
Anas Mustafa spends one day a week volunteering at his local foodbank in the city of Nordhorn in Germany. He wants to help those who can't afford to buy groceries at the supermarket - because Germany helped him when he fled the war in his home country Syria.
FoodCycle: Building communities through food
At FoodCycle, groups of volunteers cook donated food, which would otherwise have been thrown away, for communities in need around the UK. One of their projects in London is run at the Happy Baby Community for migrant and refugee women and their children. One of the volunteer project leaders is Pepe Clavijo, a Venezuelan migrant who wants to give something back to the community.
WARNING, STRONG IMAGES: In Libya’s Zintan center, migrants starve to death
InfoMigrants has received shocking photographs depicting emaciated bodies along with chilling testimonies suggesting that several migrants have starved to death in Libya’s Zintan detention center in recent weeks. NGOs have repeatedly sounded the alarm over severe malnutrition in Libyan camps.
MSF reports children suffer from "alarming rates of acute malnutrition" in Libyan migrant camps
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a report on the lack of food and alarming malnutrition in migrant detention centers in Libya, where children suffer especially badly. MSF calls upon Libyan authorities to, among other things, release all children under 18 and ensure their wellbeing.
Council of Europe slams Greece over refugee camp conditions
Horrific sanitary conditions, lack of food, and police beatings: just some of the conditions migrants in Greek camps are subjected to, according to a new report. The situation for children is particularly precarious.
Libya's Janzour detention center 'overwhelmed by arrivals'
The Janzour detention center, some 20 km south-west of Tripoli's center, has struggled with a surge in arrivals following clashes in the Libyan capital.
A day in the hellish life of migrants at Porte de la Chapelle, Paris
In the La Chapelle neighborhood in the north of Paris, hundreds of migrants live in deplorable conditions. There are many young men among them, but also minors and families with little children. They live alongside crack addicts who were themselves displaced when police cleared their makeshift encampment earlier this summer. This is the account of a day in a neighborhood marked by despair.