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Introduction It is a shocking reality that one in 95 people worldwide have been forced to flee their home. This figure has doubled com-pared to ten years ago and the numbers are predicted to rise due...

DW Akademie’s project Refugees and Migration in Africa supports the establishment of information services and feedback systems in refugee camps in several countries. To find out how people in our...

Executive summary The Refugee and Migration Africa Project of DW Akademie (DWA) is a three-year endeavor (2019 – 2021) whose aim is to improve the access of people affected by forced migration to...

Executive summary DW Akademie (DWA) is part of Deutsche Welle, and as a strategic partner of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, DWA carries out media development projects to...

Dear Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, The lack of predictable and accountable coordination arrangements for humanitarian cash continues to hamper the scale, quality and...

The death toll in attacks on villages in border regions of Niger has risen to more than 100. Attackers struck as first-round presidential results were announced. Attackers on motorbikes swept through...

By Cristina Krippahl The fate of civilians hangs in the balance as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed prepares to launch an attack on Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region. A 72-hour ultimatum...

L’enveloppe vise à soutenir les efforts du HCR dans la région, qui compte près de trois millions de réfugiés et de déplacés. Plus de 3 millions de réfugiés, de personnes déplacées, de rapatriés et de...

Prime Minister Imran Khan declared the emergency to protect crops and help farmers. The Pakistani government said it was the worst locust infestation in more than two decades. Pakistan's government...

Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and India were ordered to evacuate as the powerful cyclone made landfall. Dhaka is taking extra precautions to avert a repeat of the 1991 storm that...

Torrential rain has caused a landslide that buried dozens of homes in a village in West Java. Scores of people remain missing, and a young child is among those dead. At least 15 people have been...

The Syrian Observatory on Human Rights has said 20,000 people were killed this year in Syria's civil war. It's a record low in a conflict that has already claimed half a million lives — and that...

A deadly ambush in a northern province on the border to Mali has prompted Burkina Faso's president to declare a state of emergency. Burkina Faso is battling increased attacks by Islamist militants in...

Storms and heavy rain have caused severe flooding and landslides in the center of the island nation. Authorities have warned of continuing heavy rain ahead of New Year's celebrations. Rescue teams in...

A bus full of civilians was destroyed when the Saudi–led coalition targeted Houthi rebels in Yemen's port city of Hodeida. The latest bombing comes months after a coalition airstrike killed 40...

Militants have attacked the northern Nigerian town of Gudumbali, with residents reporting several deaths. The Nigerian government had asked displaced people to return to the town in June. Islamist...

Scores of people have been killed in ongoing clashes between rival militias vying for power. About 400 prisoners managed to escape from their detention facility by forcing the facility's doors open...

Chinese authorities have evacuated 127,000 people due to downpours in the southern Guangdong province, with rain destroying homes and ruining swaths of farmland. Casualties have also been reported. ...

The Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip have said they reached an agreement with Israel to restore calm. It follows a day of deadly Israeli strikes after a soldier was killed along the border for the...

Some 450 migrants were rescued and moved from a fishing boat onto two patrol vessels in the Mediterranean. Italy's prime minister says Malta and France have agreed to take some of the migrants. ...