"REFUGEES"

Floods devastate refugees and internally displaced people in Sudan. Many have lost all their property and have been left with little to rebuild their lives. UNHCR and partner organizations have provided emergency aid to over 170,000 refugees, internally displaced people and their hosts. UNHCR

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “effective multilateralism requires effective multilateral institutions. We must rapidly implement comprehensive and meaningful reforms, starting with the restructuring of the Security Council.” UNIFEED

Escalating conflict linked to an insurgency in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and will likely prolong crisis levels of food insecurity there, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. UNTV CH

WFP is extremely concerned about the escalating conflict and deteriorating food security situation in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, where over 300,000 people have fled their homes and villages, abandoning their crops and leaving them completely reliant on humanitarian assistance. WFP

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said his country was facing “unprecedented crises that weigh heavily upon it” and would “not be able to keep hosting the highest number of refugees per capita in the world.” UNIFEED

A refugee school teacher striving to empower rape survivors, a scientist and mother of four on a quest to make reading and learning accessible to refugee children, an activist fighting to protect the rights of displaced people with disabilities and an aspiring refugee footballer using her love for sport to get refugee children off the streets and into the classroom. These four everyday heroes who go to extraordinary lengths to help those in great need have been selected as the regional winners of this year’s Nansen Refugee Award. UNHCR

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said it was continuing to offer emergency assistance to thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers who escaped the fire at Moria camp on the Greek Island of Lesvos. UNHCR

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi ended a two-day visit to Syria with an appeal for increased international assistance to relieve the plight of families still struggling to secure even the most basic provisions years after the end of fighting in some areas. UNHCR

“Only by focusing on a political settlement can we meet the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people,” the UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told the Security Council on Friday. UNIFEED

9,000 refugees have been affected by flooding in Niger since July. Many have lost all their property and are living in dire situations with little food, shelter and water. UNHCR and its partners are providing emergency assistance but with more rains expected, more urgent action is needed to protect thousands of lives. UNHCR