Nearly170,000peoplehavefledafteraTurkish-ledassaultontheKurdish-majoritySyriancityofAfrin,theUNsaidFriday,pointingtotheharrowingconditionsfacedbythosedisplaced.
Theamountofpeopledisplacedbyconflicts,violence,andpersecutionaroundtheworldhasreached65.6million,markingajumpof300,000comparedwithlastyear,accordingtoareportpub
As of Sunday, a total of 206,520 individuals have been forced into displacement as a result of the ongoing Mosul operations which began on Oct.17, 2016, a tracking system developed by the International Organization for Migrants (IOM) showed.
"Our living conditions are becoming unbearable due to the security situation here getting worse and we are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance to survive, particularly as Afghanistan's bone-chilling winter is fast-approaching," head of a displaced family, Bismillah, 35, told Xinhua recently.
A social survey is to be conducted jointly by the Sri Lankan government and UN agencies to assess the requirements with regard to accelerated resettlement of the war displaced in the north of the country, the government said on Wednesday.
The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday announced that it will have a national policy to deal with war affected families.
More rain is on the way for south China, where rain-triggered floods have already displaced tens of thousands of people, according to the national observatory forecast on Monday.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that more than 114,000 people have been displaced by fighting in Ramadi, a city in central Iraq, and humanitarian agencies and partners continue to respond to the needs of these displaced people, Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, told reporters here Monday.
At least 3,200 people were displaced in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State after a deadly attack by suspected Boko Haram militants last week in Baga town, the country's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Monday.
The UN refugee agency ( UNHCR) has warned that an ongoing funding shortage could leave as many as a million refugees across Iraq and Syria without proper help as they prepare for the winter, a UN spokesperson said here Tuesday.
A massive United Nations aid operation for displaced Iraqis is underway as a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) cargo jet carrying 100 tons of humanitarian supplies landed in a northern city of the country on Wednesday, a UN spokesman told reporters here.
More than 455,000 people have been displaced since the start of Pakistan's military offensive against Taliban militants in the north of the country over a week ago and the number continues to rise, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday.
A recent survey showed that the reconstruction of conflict-devastated Syria would require some six million workers and between 60 and 200 billion U.S. dollars.
The death toll from flooding caused by torrential rains in southern Philippines climbed to seven, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Thursday.
Over 100 people were killed and about 70,000 others displaced in recent tribal clashes between the Arab Abballa and Beni Hussein tribes in Jabel Amir area of Sudan's North Darfur state, the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said in a statement on Thursday.