It was night when residents began hearing gunshots in the remote southern Mexico town of Tila. Then came trucks and the voices of men discussing which houses to burn. Flames began to leap around the town in Chiapas state. Five hours of shooting were followed by three days during which people hid inside their homes […]
Insights from Sudan Tribune, Foreign Policy, and El País The News The number of people internally displaced in Sudan could soon hit 10 million, the United Nations’ migration agency said on Friday. Fighting between the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group and the Sudanese army broke out in April 2023, and quickly spread across the country, […]
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A fire at a displacement camp in eastern Congo destroyed around 50 makeshift tents Wednesday afternoon, leaving dozens of families without shelter, according to the United Nations. A UN spokesman said the fire is believed to have started during cooking at a camp. The Muganga displaced people camp near the provincial […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Forced displacement has pushed over a million people away from the Gazan city of Rafah, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Monday. The small city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip had been sheltering around 1 million Palestinians who fled Israeli assaults on other parts of the […]
MORIGAON, India (AP) — Yaad Ali is dreading the rainy season’s arrival this year. The 56-year-old farmer from northeastern India’s Assam state lives with his wife and son on Sandahkhaiti island on India’s Brahmaputra River. The island, like two thousand others on the river, floods with increasing ferocity and unpredictability as human-caused climate change makes […]
McLOUD — A popular camp for people with special needs was displaced from its longtime home at St. Gregory’s University, then shuttered through long stretches of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, the beloved monk and Catholic priest who started the program never lost hope, and now his Camp Benedictine is experiencing a rebirth of sorts in […]
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s foreign minister said on Saturday that while his country would deal with civilians humanely, the displacement of Palestinians remained unacceptable. “It is not our intention to provide any safe areas or facilities, but necessarily if this was a case we will deal with the humanity that is necessary,” Sameh Shoukry said […]
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Sunday that displacement of Palestinians in Gaza is “absolutely not” the position of the Israeli government, despite widely rebuked remarks from a few cabinet members embracing this position. “Absolutely, absolutely not,” Herzog said in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday when asked whether Palestinian displacement […]