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Doctors from Libya and Somalia are among refugee medics joining the battle to fight COVID-19 and save lives.

Her family’s dire financial straits have led to 11-year-old Naamat taking on many of the household duties, but her resilient spirit has enabled her to excel at school.

Joint UNHCR-IOM Press Release

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – during the 3 Apr 2020 press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. One year since the launch of a military offensive in Tripoli, Libya, fighting is […]

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the 7 Apr 2020 press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is ramping up efforts to increase capacity to prevent, […]

Attacks by armed groups force Malian refugees to leave camp and return home while coronavirus adds new element of insecurity to Sahel crisis

While there have been no cases of COVID-19 so far, UNHCR is helping some 120,000 refugees living in region’s largest camps do what they can to mitigate threat.

Joint press release from OHCHR, IOM, UNHCR and WHO