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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.

On 26 December 2004, apocalyptic scenes flickered across TV screens around the world: leveled coastlines, uprooted palm trees, and people desperately searching for their loved ones under the rubble of their destroyed homes.

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...

From typhoons and floods to earthquakes and wildfires, both the EU and ASEAN regions are facing a growing array of hazards. Intensified by climate change, disasters are becoming more frequent, more severe and more unpredictable.

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.

When disaster strikes, every second counts. A bark in the silence of collapsed concrete can mean someone is still alive. Search and rescue dogs, trained to detect the faintest trace of human scent, are vital allies in international emergency response.

Since fleeing the Syrian conflict in 2014, 39-year-old Palestine refugee Samer lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon. He carefully manages his family’s limited electricity supply, which he pays for through a private generator subscription.

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.

In this story map, you will get an insight in EU preparedness and response to wildfires in 2025.

Hawo Abukar, 26, stands inside her small grocery shop in an camp for internally displaced people in Mogadishu, her face lit up with a warm, gentle smile. The shelves around her are neatly arranged. But behind her calm demeanour is a story of resilience.

On International Day to Protect Education from Attack we recognise the important role of education to provide hope for the future. Children’s right to quality education should not stop in times of humanitarian emergencies. 

Meet Polish and Sonita, 2 young people in Cameroon who turned trauma into strength, thanks to an impactful humanitarian partnership between the European Union and INTERSOS.

'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.

Education is not just a fundamental right – it is a powerful tool for change. During conflict, it protects children from harm, offers them hope for a better future, and is one of the strongest interventions against child marriage and recruitment into armed groups.

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

Every year, on International Dog Day, we celebrate the special bond between humans and their lifelong companions. But for some dogs, this bond also comes with a life-saving mission.

Maria is around 40 years old. Together with her family, she lives in a small village just a few dozen kilometres from the front line. Locals used to measure the distance to the nearest large cities — Zaporizhzhia or Dnipro — now they measure how close they are to the positions of Russian troops.

Wildfires force thousands of people to flee their homes