The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of EUR 5 million from the European Union (EU) to support income-generating activities to enhance self-reliance and food ...

Empowering refugees in Uganda to become self-reliant has never been more important,” said Genevieve Chicoine, WFP’s Acting ...

This is exacerbated by visual media, which makes refugees an easy target by denying them the means of telling their own ...

Nearly a quarter-million refugees have arrived in Adre, a border town in neighboring Chad and the humanitarian front line on ...

The colorful swings doting the community center at Kakuma’s Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement were donated by a Swiss organization ...

Uganda takes in thousands of refugees every week from countries including the DRC, South Sudan, and Burundi. Many arrive as families, others as unaccompanied minors.

Benedicte Chubaka’s family members were slated to fly to the U.S. from Uganda through a refugee resettlement program. After undergoing a week of medical checkups, a final step before reuniting with ...

Uganda’s welcome allows Congolese refugees to thriveOn a recent Saturday morning, as the sun emerged from a thin veil of clouds, a cheerful chorus of female voices rang out across the rolling hills of ...

Leaving violence behind Such stability and security seemed impossible to Mahoro when she was forced to flee her village in Rutshuru in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2018 as ...

For Mahoro Florence and dozens of her fellow women farmers, these hills have become a sanctuary where survival blooms into hope. The women – some with babies tied to their backs – sing in unison as ...

Ngounou joined a growing number of LGBTQ+ people accepted into the Welcome Corps, which launched last year and pairs groups of Americans with newly arrived refugees. So far, the resettlement ...

US 'Welcome Corps' helps resettle LGBTQ+ refugees fleeing crackdowns against gay people More than 60 countries have passed anti-LGBTQ laws and thousands of people have fled the Middle East and ...