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Imagine your life is turned upside down twice in the last 10 years and you lose everything you have. This is what summarizes the situation of most refugees living in Türkiye.

For Ryman, without speaking Turkish, it was hard to make a living. But one day she received a phone call that changed her life completely.

Now in its 9th year, and despite conditions resembling a truce, the conflict in Yemen remains unabated. However, this has not deterred migrants, mostly from Ethiopia, from taking their chances crossing Yemen on their way to Saudi Arabia, even if most of them never make it there.

As the old trawler pulled out from a tucked-away stretch of beach in southern Bangladesh, Shukura and nearly 200 other desperate Rohingya refugees from Myanmar braced themselves for the arduous journey ahead.

6 years into the Rohingya refugee crisis, nearly 1 million Rohingya remain stranded in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh, their plight far from over.

The international humanitarian law, or ‘rules of war’, is a set of rules that seek to limit the effects of armed conflict.

Forced to flee her home in Mykolaiv, Lyudmilla and her 7-year-old daughter Irina found refuge in Moldova. Despite the warm welcome they received, she longs to one day return to Ukraine.

Children who had to flee conflict often suffer from mental health issues due to the distressing experiences they had gone through. Caring for their mental health is as important as for their physical wellbeing.

Children in the Sahel have the right to education, protection and well-being for harmonious development. The EU and Save the Children provide mental health and psychosocial support for children affected by violence.

In West Africa, hunger has reached a sad new record. For the 3rd consecutive year, the Sahel and Lake Chad regions are facing food and nutrition crises of exceptional proportions, affecting up to 38.3 million people.

When Kosovo asked for help to the EU’s emergency response coordination centre, Slovenia was quick to respond. Right after the request was received, the country sent a batch of personal protective material out of its own stock to Kosovo and other Balkan countries in need.

In Somalia, for more than 3 million children, getting a good education is out of reach.

EU mobilises support to isolated communities as once-in-a-century flooding causes massive destruction

Unpredictable and extreme weather due to climate change is affecting Somalia. Dedicated frontline health and nutrition workers are in action with immediate life-saving response, as 1.8 million children are expected to need treatment for malnutrition by the end of the year.

Abuk Garang is in cheerful mood with a huge smile plastered across her face. Her children are in similarly high spirits and playing together outside their small house in Halbul, Aweil East.

Months have passed since flames engulfed a cargo ship sailing off the coast of the commercial shipping harbour in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in May 2021.

With funding from the EU, the Dutch Red Cross is supporting the Ethiopia Red Cross Society better prepare for natural hazards and human-induced disasters.

On their way to Saudi Arabia, migrants from the Horn of Africa are on an arduous journey.

In December 2021, a new outbreak of violence in the province of Logone-Birni in north-eastern Cameroon caused thousands of people to seek refuge in neighbouring Chad, crossing the Chari River to reach the outskirts of the Chadian capital N'Djamena.