UN: Wars Internally Displace 33.3 Million In 2013

“These are people in absolute crisis,” said Egeland, who was the U.N.’s top humanitarian official from 2003 to 2006. “They are the most vulnerable of humankind.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press

GENEVA — A record 33.3 million people worldwide were displaced by conflict and violence inside their own nations in 2013, U.N. and Norwegian officials said Wednesday. The increase of 4.5 million above the 2012 total was driven largely by Syria's civil war, now in its fourth year, which activists estimate has killed 150,000 people. The heads

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Lebanon’s Syrian Refugees: ‘An entire Generation Is Growing Up With PTSD’

Refugees are a daily fact of life in Lebanon. They are middle class people with nowhere else to go. There is nothing they can do but wait.

Global Post
By Global Post

BERUIT — Refugees are everywhere on the streets of downtown Beirut. Women and children in filthy clothes beg for money on nearly every street corner. Countless young boys tote shoeshine kits, persistently following foreigners and wealthy Lebanese who pass by. "Min Sooriya" they say, meaning “from Syria.” As if there was any doubt. Refugees

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Amnesty Intl: Civilians In Darfur Being Targeted For Murder, Sexual Assault

Amnesty International found that civilians in Central Darfur were deliberately targeted and subjected to unlawful killings, sexual violence, shootings and lootings.

Les Neuhaus
By Les Neuhaus
A Sudanese family takes shelter under their donkey cart at the Kalma refugee camp for internally displaced people, south of the Darfur town of Nyala, Sudan. (AP/UNAMID)

Ongoing fighting in Sudan’s western region of Darfur saw a dramatic rise last year, and in the last six weeks, another wave of violence has caught hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in the crosshairs, an international rights group said Friday. A once-heated war between the Khartoum-based government and various rebel groups with competing

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Humanitarian Crisis Brewing As CAR Refugees Seek Shelter In Neighboring Countries

More than 80,000 people in Chad and another 30,000 more in Cameroon have sought shelter in recent weeks.

Les Neuhaus
By Les Neuhaus
Central African Republic Unrest

Chaotic sectarian violence has driven thousands out of the Central African Republic (CAR) and into neighboring Chad, and U.N. agencies say they are facing a challenging situation and emergency assistance is needed immediately. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR on Tuesday expressed alarm about the pending needs of CAR refugees in Chad. In CAR, there

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UN Official ‘Disturbed And Shaken’ After Visit To Palestinian Camp In Syria

Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk camp south of Damascus are desperate for medical supplies and nutritional provisions.

Les Neuhaus
By Les Neuhaus
Mideast Syria

The head of the U.N.’s agency for Palestinian refugees visited the besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Yarmouk, a suburb just south of the Syrian capital, on Sunday, alerting diplomats and aid workers to the deteriorating situation for people remaining in the area. “I am deeply disturbed and shaken by what I observed today,” Filippo Grandi,

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Cameroon Becomes Vortex For Arms Trafficking In Troubled Region

Traffickers are using the country to funnel arms to Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants, but the weapons are having a regional impact, creating instability in several countries.

Les Neuhaus
By Les Neuhaus
A vehicle filled with people and heavy load, precedes a convoy of over 100 trucks arriving in the Central African Republic capital Bangui from Cameroon

Insecurity created by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which operates mostly in northern Nigeria, is having an impact across a wide swathe of countries in the region, according to reports. A spate of recent arms seizures and arrests of traffickers in Cameroon destined for neighboring Nigeria is reflecting the increasing instability being

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