Stories

A bullet wound. Handwritten death threats. Months spent waiting in shelters meant for temporary halts. Across Mexico, thousands are fleeing violence, poverty and disasters. Many are trapped between the dangers they escaped and borders they cannot cross.

These stories explore the lives of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Maidimu site, highlighting their resilience and determination to rebuild amidst displacement. The Maidimu site, located near Shire in Tigray, Ethiopia, serves as a refuge for over 10,000 IDPs.

As the world marks International Migrants Day, it is worth remembering that people rarely move without a reason. Some leave to escape danger, others because life at home has become impossible to sustain. This story focuses on those forced to flee.

Hurricane Melissa developed on 25 October 2025 in the Caribbean Sea, and quickly became extremely powerful, erratic, and devastating.

In the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, emergencies like fires can spread quickly, destroying shelters and putting lives at risk. With support from EU humanitarian aid, Acted is training volunteers as first responders, strengthening community resilience.

Earlier this year, renewed unrest in South Sudan forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. Families crossed the border into Ethiopia, seeking safety in places like Matar. Here, the most basic needs such as clean water, food and shelter are scarce.

In the fractured hills of Tigray, resilience has become both a burden and a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes. As Ethiopia’s northernmost region, it remains the epicentre of internal displacement, where memories of conflict, the struggle to survive...

Since January 2025, large-scale military operations have caused widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure in Jenin city, its refugee camp, and neighbouring villages. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed while dozens of schools have been forced to close.

Since 1948, UNRWA has operated in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT), Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, providing registered Palestinian refugees with education, healthcare, social services, infrastructure and camp improvements, microfinance, and emergency assistance.

Madeleine, 57, endured unspeakable tragedy when, 8 years ago, the protracted conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR) claimed her son's life before her eyes.

Sally is an 11-year-old Palestinian child who currently lives in a shelter run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Beach Camp in Gaza City. Sally and her family have not left the northern Gaza Strip at any point during the war.

Haiti is struggling with an unprecedented level of violence. Armed groups control more than 85% of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, and are expanding their presence in the Artibonite and Centre departments, increasing catastrophic levels of humanitarian needs.

Over 16 months of war devastated the Gaza Strip. What was once a place with resourceful people struggling with many challenges and under Israeli blockade, is now a grim landscape of rubble, tents, and overcrowded, bullet-riddled makeshift shelters.

Civilians in northern Mali are caught in the crossfire of an escalating conflict. Often wrongly associated with non-state armed groups, they bear the brunt of retaliatory attacks, with violations perpetrated by all parties to the conflict, and suffer from the absence of basic services.

730 days later... And the pain is still as fresh as the first day. On 6 February 2023, a powerful earthquake shook 11 provinces in Türkiye, leaving more than 53,000 dead, 107,000 injured, and 164,000 buildings in ruins. In an instant, millions of lives were changed.

Silwan, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, has become a focal point in the ongoing tensions over house demolitions. The area faces pressure from Israeli settler groups seeking to turn the land into a national park linked to the nearby City of David archaeological site.

It starts with smoke – a single column of black smoke rising on the other side of the village. Then a second, a third. Houses are burning. Soon, the sound of gunshots and screaming. This has been the reality for millions of people in Cabo Delgado since the conflict started in October 2017.

As the harsh Ukrainian winter approaches, their owners face a stark challenge: how to protect themselves and their damaged homes from the bitter cold and the dangers it brings.

Mahassin Mohammed Ibrahim was cooking a meal for her family in the Sudanese city of El Fasher when her front door swung open, and a hand grenade clattered to the ground. The ensuing blast showered the room with shrapnel, leaving the 39-year-old bleeding on the floor.