— Hunger and Sudan’s horrific war pushed Abdelminime Moussa from his homeland. Sitting in the sand at eastern Chad’s Koursigue refugee camp, the Sudanese father describes how his family fled assailants who surrounded their village in North Darfur, just across the border.
Abdelminime Moussa at the desolate Koursigue refugee camp in eastern Chad. Moussa and his family count amount the millions of refugees who escaped conflict-torn Sudan. Photo: WFP/Lena von Zabern
“We had nothing,” Moussa says of their arrival earlier this year at this desolate camp, sprinkled with white tents, thorn trees and not much else. “I manage as best as I can to feed my children.”
(New York) –The United States should not forcibly transfer migrants to Libya, where inhumane detention conditions are well-documented, including torture, ill-treatment, sexual assault, and unlawful killings, Human Rights Watch said today [9 May 2025].
Based on numerous media reports citing US officials, the Trump administration may be poised to imminently deport an unknown number of detained migrants to Libya.
(UN News)* — The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has strongly condemned the forced entry by Israeli security forces into three of its schools in occupied East Jerusalem, describing it as a violation of children’s right to education and safety.
WFP Video | Gaza faces severe shortages of food, water and medicine. (file)
According to the agency, heavily armed personnel entered the schools in Shu’fat refugee camp on Thursday [] while classes were in session, forcing more than 550 Palestinian girls and boys – some as young as six – out of their classrooms.
(UN News)* — Students displaced by the war in Gaza have been channeling their anguish into art in psychosocial support sessions provided by the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA.
UN News | Fatima Al-Za’anin, a displaced Palestinian girl from Beit Hanoun (Gaza), speaks about her drawings in an art exhibition organized by UNRWA in Gaza City as part of its mental health and psychosocial support services.
Their paintings and drawings range from a portrait of an esteemed Palestinian poet and family members killed in conflict, to a sky blackened by thick smoke – and a child crying in front of his mother’s corpse.
(UN News)* — Grim details emerged on Wednesday of Israeli airstrikes on a UN-run school in Gaza sheltering 2,000 displaced people, which reportedly killed 30 Palestinians sheltering there.
The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, maintained that Israeli forces hit the school in Al Bureij, Middle Gaza, at around 6pm on Tuesday and again at 10.20pm
“The school sustained severe damage and a fire broke out in the shelter, making it difficult to evacuate the casualties. Residents had to open a hole in the wall to evacuate the dead and wounded,” UNRWA told UN News.
KARACHI, Pakistan, May 8 2025 (IPS)* – Just after the young couple arrived at Al-Sayyed Shabistan, a quaint guesthouse in Taobat, on April 30, soldiers showed up, urging them to leave—war, they warned, could break out any moment.
This village is half in India and half in Pakistan. In Pakistan it is called Chilhana; on the Indian side, it’s called Teetwal. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS
Haiti hunger crisis: How WFP delivers food amid violence and insecurity
A woman with her daughter at a WFP nutrition assessment in the Ouest Department. Photo: WFP/Tanya Birkbeck
—“You can’t imagine how frustrated I am,” says Janvier Muhima. It’s early morning, and a mission to assist 30,000 people in La Saline, one of the most vulnerable areas of Port-au-Prince, is postponed “simply because the roads are blocked due to violence in the area.”
A million more Somalis could be pushed into severe hunger as recurrent droughts and floods, conflict and high food prices threaten to displace families, disrupt farming, restrict market access and increase humanitarian needs.
In recent months, Somaliland has become a subject of intense, unprecedented interest for the Western media.
Somaliland National Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
As Israeli and US officials scramble to find a destination to forcibly relocate Gaza’s population from their shattered homeland, the little-acknowledged, unrecognised breakaway statelet is increasingly viewed as an attractive option.
5 May 2025 —Madeleine had already lost her husband a few years earlier and could no longer cope with the escalating violence in her village. She decided to flee, heading for an unknown destination with her grandchildren.
Madeleine in front of her house in Bocaranga. Photo: Patricia Pouhe/NRC
WFP/Petroc Wilton
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