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In the hills of Tigray, where displacement has reshaped daily life, strength often reveals itself in small, steady gestures. Belaynesh grips her white jerrycan with steady hands. What once felt unbearably heavy now feels lighter, almost routine.

The conflict in Sudan continues to rage, forcing civilians to flee their homes. Nearly 15 million Sudanese have been internally displaced or have left the country, including almost 4 million children. This has made Sudan the world’s largest child displacement crisis.

In 2023, the escalation between Azerbaijan and Karabakh and the subsequent ceasefire afterwards led to the exodus of more than 100.000 Karabakh people to Armenia.

Colombia continues to host one of the world's largest populations of forcibly uprooted people. There are over 7 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), in addition to 3 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees.

When conflict erupted in Sudan in April 2023, millions of civilians were forced to flee their homes in search of safety. While many crossed into Chad, Egypt, and South Sudan, a significant number sought refuge in Libya.

Lebanon is marked by continued economic and social instability, with 2.2 million Lebanese in need of humanitarian aid. The wide economic breakdown left families struggling to make ends meet, while the country is also hosting the highest number of refugees per capita in the world.

Ayan’s voice shakes as she remembers her first months in a displacement camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. Around her, the health facility is alive with movement and noise. Nurses bustle, babies cry, and mothers confer in hushed tones.

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...

In the heart of Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp— one of the world’s largest refugee settlements—15-year-old Ifrah Ahmed Garad is rewriting the story of what it means to be a girl born into displacement.

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.

For over a decade, war negatively shaped Ahmed’s family’s life: they were displaced, separated, and forced to abandon everything they held dear. When the Assad regime fell in December 2024, they were able to return to their village.

'We fled after the arrival of armed groups. I had to ensure the safety of my family,’ says Rafiki Dukuze, a father of four, recalling the day violence forced him and his wife Ancila Niyonzima out of their home in the province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Since 2016, conflict between government forces and separatist groups in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions - North-West and South-West – has displaced nearly 600,000 people. With support from the European Union, the World Food Programme is helping families like Joyce’s and Manfred’s to recover

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.

The ongoing conflict in Sudan has forced 15 million people from their homes, with children bearing the brunt of the crisis. As millions face food insecurity, malnutrition and a lack of safe water, urgent lifesaving assistance is needed to protect their futures.

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.

At just 9 years old, Tumaini lost everything he knew. The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) tore his world apart, claiming the lives of his parents, relatives and destroying their home, leaving him and his elder brother alone in a country ailing from political instability.

With funds received from donors like the European Union, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is working to register and renew the documents of 150,000 refugees and asylum-seekers in Iraq in 2025.

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.