Reports

20 Women Raped During March 2020 Attack in Ebam (Nairobi) – An attack by Cameroonian soldiers on March 1, 2020 has come to light in which soldiers raped at least 20 women, including four with disabilities, arrested…

Reporting Sexual Violence By state bodies or conflict actors and affecting IDPs and refugees, aid, health workers or educators. Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo 02 February 2021: In Kihome village, Beni territory, North Kivu province, a two year-old girl…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee…

Regional Highlights COVID-19 cases have steadily increased since November 2020. Top five countries with the highest confirmed cases include Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. This is the second wave of the pandemic in the region, with…

Over 109,000 persons have fled CAR due to the ongoing conflict (estimates from host governments as of 16 February 2021), the majority across the southern border to the Democratic Republic of Congo. To improve refugee access to…

COVID-19 AND THE HUMANITARIAN LANDSCAPE 2020 was a year like no other. Amidst on-going humanitarian crises, largely fuelled by conflict and violence but also driven by the effects of climate change – such as the largest locust…

CRISIS OVERVIEW On 15 December, six armed groups (3R, FPRC, MPC, UPC, and the Mokom and Ndomaté Anti-Balaka wings) formed the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) in Central African Republic (CAR) (RFI 20/12/2020). They initially launched…

CRISIS OVERVIEW 700,000 children have been affected by school closures in Cameroon’s Northwest (NW) and Southwest (SW) regions (referred to from now on as the NWSW regions), as a result of the Anglophone crisis that began in…

Over 109,000 persons have fled CAR due to the ongoing conflict (estimates from host governments as of 12 February 2021), the majority across the southern border to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Within CAR, increasing attacks…

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee…