Dear Paris 🇫🇷,

Perina will be seeing you in the summer!

Two weeks ago, Perina received some amazing news when her name was read out to represent Refugee Olympic Team at the #Paris2024 The Olympic Games & she couldn’t be more excited 🏅🥳🏃🏾‍♀️

We are rooting for you and the team, Perina!❤️

No one should be deprived of being with their family.

Refugees are no exception. #HopeAwayFromHome #DayOfFamilies

To enhance access to health care, UNHCR Sudan is providing crucial fuel support for hospitals in El Fasher, North #Darfur , amidst severe shortages in the state. Access to functioning hospitals is a lifeline especially to those injured in the ongoing crisis🇸🇩

🚨 Climate change is making parts of the world – especially in fragile regions like East Africa –
increasingly more difficult to live in and displaced people are among those bearing the brunt of it.

Uganda is one of the biggest refugee hosting countries in the world – and the biggest on the African continent.

As @UNHCRUganda and the Govt Uganda meet Denmark MFA 🇩🇰, we thank them for supporting Uganda’s refugee response plan.

UNHCR East, Horn of Africa and Great Lakes Onek Hilary.

Refugees are best placed to understand the challenges they face and design solutions to those challenges.

UNHCR’s Refugee-led Innovation Fund gives organizations led by refugees the right support to be changemakers in their communities.

Apply NOW! bit.ly/3QkHRey

These refugee students in Kenya are excited to start their education to become nurses and we wish them all the best!

Thanks to UNHCR KENYA, County Government of Turkana and KMTC, students are turning their dreams into reality as they start nursing school.

#NursesDay

UNHCR's Head of Sub-Office William Ejalu reports on the flooding situation in the Dadaab refugee camps and our response.

Read the Q+A on here:
unhcr.org/ke/25177-q-a-w…

Latest situation from Dadaab refugee camp.

UNHCR and partners distribute more core relief items to families displaced by flooding, as part of a multi-agency response.

#flooding #ClimateEmergency

Today Ambassador of Ireland to Tanzania and I signed a new EUR 800,000 partnership agreement providing protection and assistance to refugees & asylum seekers in Tanzania.

🙏Many thanks from UNHCR Tanzania to the people & Govt. of Ireland 🇮🇪 for your unwavering support for refugees in 🇹🇿.

The 69th United Nations Civil Society Conference is #HappeningNow in Nairobi, Kenya, for the first time ever in Africa. 70% of the registered organizations are from Africa & 40% are youth-led.

We reiterate calls urging civil society to raise their voices ahead of the Summit of the Future.

Because of the war in Sudan, neighboring countries are experiencing one of the largest humanitarian and displacement crises in the world.

Here are 3 things to know about South Sudan, where people fleeing Sudan are arriving.

Happy #EuropeDay2024 !

UNHCR Ethiopia is very grateful for generous donations from European countries that help support over 1 million #refugees in Ethiopia.

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🚨 Heavy rains and severe flooding triggered by #ElNiño are sweeping across East Africa.

In Kenya, Burundi, Somalia and Tanzania, displaced people are among the hardest hit by the floods. unh.cr/663895fb4

Happy #EuropeDay 🇪🇺 !

With the partnership and support of European Commission EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺 and European Union In Kenya, UNHCR can protect refugees in Kenya.

Thank you for your solidarity with refugees!

Today, our directors were in #AddisAbaba visiting the Gulele Urban Branch Office managed by Refugees and Returnees Service - RRS where over 77,000 urban refugees can come to get registered, receive documents for their newborns, and renew their IDs.

🚨 Heavy rains and severe flooding triggered by #ElNiño are sweeping across East Africa and displaced people are bearing the brunt.

Here’s what you need to know.

What is it like to document a war that's destroying your home country, forcing millions of your people to flee?

Ala Kheir shares his reflections and one of the stories that struck him the most since he started documenting the war in Sudan.

Full video 👉bit.ly/3UtzAYF

📍Kakuma refugee camp

UNHCR is coordinating with a range of partners to support refugee families impacted by flooding.

Core relief items were distributed today and we continue to monitor the situation to ensure refugees are safe.

Pleasure to meet with IRC - International Rescue Committee Reg. Vice President East Africa Banchi Dessalegn, to discuss challenges facing the forcibly displaced in the region, and what we can do more together to support them. IRC is a strong partner & ally. Looking forward to our continued engagement.