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Portrait of a woman, taken from below. Trees are casting shadows over her somber face.

Kenya: Vattenbrist i flyktinglägret Kakuma

02. feb 2023 - Feature

NRC providing ID-cards, Tazkira ID, to Afghan women in Kandahar in 2020.

Afghanistan: Talibanernas förbud mot kvinnliga hjälparbetare stoppar humanitärt arbete

12. jan 2023 - Afghanistan

Mother and son doing homework in their living room.

Min familj är mitt hem

13. dec 2022 - Feature

Mali: Översvämningarna som förstörde hem

21. nov 2022 - Feature

Mindre vattenhämtande för Amal

08. nov 2022 - Perspektiv

Portrait of a man, looking straight into the camera. He is wearing a red t-shirt, holding his hands on his hips. Behind him is a large group of people.

Vad är en svältkatastrof?

12. okt 2022 - Perspektiv

Black and white portrait of a smiling woman.

Hon syr sin livsdröm

04. okt 2022 - Feature

Dokkhinpara is one the most isolated points of the island, where 30 fishing families live with barely any access to facilities. Photo: Ayesha Nawshin/ NRC

Ljuset sprids på en ö i Bangladesh

09. sep 2022 - Perspektiv

Från guldgruvan till klassrummet

23. aug 2022 - Perspektiv

Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize - NRC Flyktinghjälpen er pristagare 2022

NRC Flyktinghjälpen tilldelas Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize 2022

15. aug 2022 - Global

Vi hjälpte nästan 10 miljoner människor under 2021

12. aug 2022 - Perspektiv

Världens mest försummade flyktkriser år 2021

07. jun 2022 - Feature

A curtain gently blowing in the wind from an open window.

När döden är nattvakt

24. maj 2022 - Berättelser

Max, 5, is sitting on a staircase, playing a game on a phone. He recently fled to Poland from Ukraine with his mother.

Får hjälp med stress och trauma

20. maj 2022 - Berättelser

Children playing on the floor.

6 saker vi gör för att hjälpa barn med trauman

16. maj 2022 - Berättelser

Portrait of Omaia, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl. She is standing in front a grey wall, looking down.

Omaia är rädd att hennes nära och kära ska dödas

11. maj 2022 - Berättelser

– Livet här kan försvinna

29. apr 2022 - Berättelser

Liliias inre kamp

11. apr 2022 - Berättelser

Kriget i Ukraina är dåliga nyheter för världens flyktingar

07. apr 2022 - Perspektiv

– Räkna till 10 innan du gör nästa drag

31. mar 2022 - Perspektiv

A woman carrying a blue water can on her left shoulder. In the background we see the large, white tank where she collected the water.

Sju människors historier från sju år med krig

28. mar 2022 - Perspektiv

Ukraina-krisen: Vi trappar upp arbetet

25. mar 2022 - Ukraina

En mamma flyr torkan i Somalia

21. mar 2022 - Perspektiv

Ukraina: – Vi blir nerringda av desperata människor

18. mar 2022 - Ukraina

Ukraine: Trapped in bomb shelters.

Fast i skyddsrum

09. mar 2022 - Ukraina

Varje sekund – en ny flykting

08. mar 2022 - Perspektiv

”Mamma, kommer någon att invadera oss också nu?”

03. mar 2022 - Perspektiv

NRC’s Secretary General Jan Egeland at Stanytsia Luhanska, one of the crossing points on the contact line in Ukraine.

Ukraina: Så kan du hjälpa

01. mar 2022 - Ukraina

Ukraina: Förbereder oss på stora flyktingströmmar

01. mar 2022 - Ukraina

Portrait of Majok, a 48 year old man. He is looking out to his right.

Även ett ankare svajar i storm

23. feb 2022 - Berättelser

Livet vid frontlinjen

18. feb 2022 - Från fältet

"Lifelong love: What's the secret." Two grandparents and four of their grandchildren laughing and being silly. They are all sitting on a bench inside their living space.

Livslång kärlek

15. feb 2022 - Berättelser

Liten salong, stor framtid

10. feb 2022 - Perspektiv

Att skräddarsy ett liv åt sig själv

10. feb 2022 - Perspektiv

10 saker du bör veta om krisen i Ukraina

07. feb 2022 - Perspektiv

Vattentillgång kan göra stor skillnad

02. feb 2022 - Perspektiv

Kraften i att bestämma

26. jan 2022 - Perspektiv

Camp 10 and 2W LCs

Inkludering i utbildning för rohingyiska ungdomar

21. jan 2022 - Perspektiv

A small, grey and white bird in a cage. It is sitting on worn, green stick. The wall behind it is pale red.

Sånger från ett vinterland

18. jan 2022 - Berättelser

A young Afghan girl is trying her new winter boots outside her tent. She is wearing red trousers, a skirt and a red knit jacket. The ground is wet and snowy.

Farida har nya vinterskor

18. jan 2022 - Berättelser

Glimtar av hopp

23. dec 2021 - Berättelser

Andra hav. Andra gränser. Samma drömmar.

23. dec 2021 - Perspektiv

Tre skäl till att din gåva spelar roll

22. dec 2021 - Berättelser

Flyktingarna som vill ge tillbaka

19. dec 2021 - Berättelser

Melat ler igen

19. dec 2021 - Berättelser

Portrait of a woman. She is wearing a pink shawl and a purple jacket.

Ett barn på väg

15. dec 2021 - Berättelser

Gåvan av vatten

14. dec 2021 - Perspektiv

The family that built a farm

Familjen som byggde en gård

09. dec 2021 - Berättelser

Julhandeln kan slå rekord i goda gärningar

03. dec 2021 - Perspektiv

Interview of psychologist Zemir Popovac about the importance of giving.

Photo: Beate Simarud/NRC

Plötsligt är du inte längre ensam

30. nov 2021 - Perspektiv

“I thought that I would come to Jordan for a month, two months...a year or two, but I have stayed here to this day. Now there is no hope of returning to Syria. Our city Homs was badly destroyed, our house was levelled because of the bombing”

Muhammad is a Syrian refugee from Homs. He fled Syria in 2012 to Jordan and now lives in Mafraq city in northeastern Jordan. Muhammad never thought that he would be a refugee in Jordan drying bread for a living, which is the only option he now has to provide a simple income for his family.

Capture date: 26/09/2021

Photo: Sherbel Dissi/ NRC

– Det svåraste för mig var att anpassa sig

26. nov 2021 - Perspektiv

In November 2020 Aklilu packed his bags for a trip from his university in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to meet his family in Humera, a small town nestled in the most northwestern part of the country. Like other soon-to-be college graduates, Aklilu was already job hunting and planning to celebrate. “I’ll see you in five weeks for our graduation ceremony,” Aklilu told his friends.
A few days after Aklilu returned to his family home in Humera, mortar-fire ripped through the small town. Conflict started between the federal government of Ethiopia and the Tigrayan Defence Force. Aklilu hurried across the border into Sudan for safety. Today, over 60,000 Ethiopians have poured into Sudan for safety like Aklilu.
Aklilu fled into Sudan with nothing and left his education in Ethiopia behind. Once proficient in the backroom politics of Chelsea football club and a top structural engineering student, Aklilu kicks dirt and waits for updates about the war in Ethiopia. He wonders if the past five years of college education have been for nothing.
“We never expected this could happen. I had heard there were issues, but to me they were just politics. I never knew things could become this bad,” Aklilu says.
When Aklilu arrived at the Um Rakuba refugee camp he lived with his mother, brother, grandmother, aunt, uncle and cousins under a blue tarp that hung over bundled-together wood. A latrine was nearby and the smell overtook the morning coffee his grandmother made. A few weeks later, his family relocated to another space and were given a white tent with a gracious opening in the front and back. But in the rainy season the tent became a parachute. Aklilu and other refugees became bleary eyed by holding the tent down each night to stave off the winds.
“When I was in Ethiopia, I loved the rainy season. You can’t do anything but sit and watch the rain come down. That was my favourite moment,” says Aklilu.
Around 1,655 other university students feel abandoned in the refugee camps like Aklilu. In Umm Rakuba there are 76 university students who have formed a group, called the Tigrayan Refugees University Students in Sudan Association, or TRUSS. The association’s document lay out why their future is in doubt.
“Going back is like choosing death,” one letter the association wrote to a visitor says. “Universities in Tigray are highly damaged and destroyed…universities outside of Tigray are giving services at this time but most Tigrayan University students are afraid to go there because of their identity." Youth like Aklilu cannot back home to continue their education in the universities of Ethiopia in fear of the violence and discrimination they might encounter for being Tigrayans.
“A result of the conflict in Ethiopia is that some of the brightest minds in the country are confined to refugee camps in Sudan,” said Will Carter, Sudan Country Director at the Norwegian Refugee Council. “If these students are given a chance somewhere, they’d be a spark for whomever accepts them.”

But TRUSS students want more than acceptance into a University — they want a university to recognize their past work.
Many hurdles stand in the way of Aklilu getting his degree. When the violence started, many like Aklilu fled and left behind most of their valuables, including their civil documents, identity cards, and education records. As result, they are now unable to provide proof for who they are or how far along they got in university. Also, in a camp where the scarce amount of money they have is barely enough for food, the students cannot afford paying for registration, books, transportation, and accommodation. The only solution would be a full-board scholarship.
Recently, Aklilu has been exploring going to a university in Ghana under a scholarship. However, this scholarship likely means that students lose the progress they have made in university and start from scratch.
Aklilu, like the other senior students in the camp, is frustrated that he probably has to spend another five years studying for a Civil Engineering Degree he was only five weeks away from receiving.
“We are waiting for the opportunity for a university that will accept to acknowledge the credit we have from the university back home. If we accept to start over, we will be 30 years old by the time we graduate. We might not find a job for a long time over. We will be wasting a lot of time in our life,” says Aklilu.On a Friday morning, members of the association gather in a communal tent for their weekly meeting. They have organized themselves into committees and are planning their week ahead. One group will fundraise among other refugees to help an isolated elderly woman in the camp; another one will meet other students and youth in the camp to connect them with NGOs.
While they wait for education, the students in TRUSS and other youth act like community mobilizers. Truss has been helping organizations like NRC to re-build shelters, organize cash distributions, facilitate children registration in school, as well as raising community issues. They receive stipends from organizations, which help them support their families.
“I liked watching movies and series back home, but I like it even more now because there’s nothing much else to do,” says Bisrat, one of Aklilu’s close friends, who now works for NRC.
The students feel trapped in part because they are. The 2014 Asylum Act gives refugees the right to move and seek an education, but in reality, they are contained to the camp. The encampment policy enforced for refugees prevents all the residents to leave the site, cutting them access to jobs and markets and curtailing their freedom of movement.
“Tigrayan refugees cannot leave the camp unless they acquire a permit from authorities for worthy reasons, linked to education, health, or jobs. Unfortunately, these permits are very hard to get – it becomes a vicious circle. They can’t get many opportunities to leave the camp, if they can’t leave the camp to look for them,” says Silvia Beccacece, former NRC Gadarif Area Manager.
Kids in the camp get access to education but are not much better off. Thanks to help from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affair, NRC was one of the first organizations to respond to learning needs in Umm Rakuba. Since then, NRC has been able to expand the quality and durability of the schools with the help of Education Cannot Wait. Around 2,050 children, aged between 6 and 14, go to the four schools NRC has built in different areas of the camp. Resources remain limited. The only textbooks available were ferried across from Ethiopia, and the children attend their classes by sitting on the floors of sand.
Still, students are grateful for what they receive. Nati Teame, 10, is one of NRC’s schoolchildren in the Um Rakuba camp.
“I wake up in the morning and pass the time until it’s time for school. I’ve never been late,” Nati said. “My parents never got the chance to be educated, and I don’t want the same thing to happen to me.”

Photo: Ingrid/Prestetun

– Den största gåvan är att ha mina vänner omkring mig

18. nov 2021 - Perspektiv

A man playing with his three-year-old daughter by throwing her up in the air.

Att vara pappa i en konflikt utan slut

10. nov 2021 - Berättelser

En dödlig kombination av torka och konflikt

05. nov 2021 - Berättelser

Nuela stands outside of her home in Boali, Central African Republic.

Nuela Ngaiboma is a 29 year old woman originally from Birlo village in Central African Republic. During CAR’s post electoral violence in December 2020, armed groups attacked Nuela’s village, Birlo. She fled and after an arduous journey she made it to Boali to stay with her aunt. In Boali, she received cash assistance from NRC to get back on her feet. She lives with her three childre, (two sons and a daughter) and sells food outside her house in Boali.

“When I was in the fields, I saw many people had started to run. When I asked why they were running, they said an armed group had entered the village and they had taken control of the village. I asked those running if they had seen my children. They said they had just fled as quick as they could. I had no choice but to go back and try to find my children. They tried to stop me from going to the village saying it was too dangerous. I told them I can’t abandon my children, and that I’m going to look for them so we can all stay together in the bush. When I returned to the village, I saw the armed men had taken the village. I heard gunshots coming from all directions. There were no villagers anywhere, there were not even any animals. I found my children and I ran with them to the bush until I reached the edge of a stream. When my aunt here in Boali learned about the attack, She called me and told me to come to Boali with a taxi-moto. I told her that there were no taxi-motos anywhere. How am I going to make it all the way to Boali? So my aunt asked some young people from Boali, to come to try to find me. They crossed through the bush on foot and they found me. It was around 9am when they found me and so we crossed through the bush together. It was around 4pm when we arrived here in Boali. As soon as my aunt saw me, she started to cry. She asked me to stay here and that’s why I’m here to this day. While I was here, NRC came here. They provided me with around $90 in cash in assistance. This helped to reduce my hardship here a little. One of my challenges right now is that my children are not going to school. They’re staying at home because their school is too dangerous. The children can’t go there because the school is surrounded by mines. I have many problems and I’m living in fear. I want there to be peace so my children can continue to go to school. I have so many worries on my mind. Because I am afraid. I am worried that what I just experienced might happen all over again. I just want peace for my country. So that we can work in our fields, go about our business, and see our children go to school while we live in peace. Then we will move past the memories of conflict and live in peace.” Nuela Ngaiboma, 29.

Photo: Itunu Kuku/NRC
Date: 13 July 2021

Nuelas mardröm

21. okt 2021 - Perspektiv

– Jag är hungrig

06. okt 2021 - Perspektiv

En fristad från krigets trauma

05. okt 2021 - Berättelser

När elever och lärare blev måltavlor

23. sep 2021 - Perspektiv

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Photo: Daniel Wheeler/NRC

Description: Ala (22) poses for a portrait.

Factual information

First name: Ala
Age: 22
Current location: Za’atari Refugee Camp, Jordan
From: Daraa, Syria. Fled to Jordan in 2012
Occupation: Seamstress at NRC’s youth programme.
NRC beneficiary: Yes, Ala received seamstress training as part of NRC’s youth training programme and now works as a seamstress as part of the programme.

Interview

Ala’s words

“I fled Syria in 2012 because of the heavy fighting. I left on foot at 10pm and arrived at the Jordanian border at 6am the next morning. We travelled at night because we were terrified of being attached on the way. There was around 100 of us and many people were injured.

When we arrived at the border and were met by the army (Jordanian Army) I felt like a drowning person that had been saved. I felt on edge the entire journey and now I had soldiers telling me ‘You are safe now’, it was all so overwhelming.

I live with my five sisters and five brothers. I am the eldest, so I feel responsible for them, and I looked after them during coronavirus.

I found out about NRC’s youth programme after doing a four-month sewing scholarship with a different organisation. I became very passionate about sewing so I wanted to continue my training and the programme at NRC seemed perfect. When I started on the programme, I realised that I still had so much to learn, and it was very intensive but rewarding.

The programme is delivered in three phases, with the first stages being training and the third phase being an employment opportunity.

I live on the other side of the camp and walk an hour each day to get to the centre. It’s a long walk in the desert heat but it’s so worth it.

An average day for me is waking up at 6am and after getting ready, I walk to the centre and we started work at 8:30am. At 12:30am we have a lunch break and then we work until 3pm. After I walk back home, I usually have a nap because the work is tiring but very rewarding.

When asked what the programme means to her, she replies with: “This opportunity that NRC has given me has provided me with financial independence and an opportunity for success in my life. My father is so proud of me and that is very important to me.”

When asked what she wants to do in the future, she says: “In the future, I want to open my own sewing centre for women which has integrity and quality – just like NRC.”

Alas beslutsamhet ger resultat

21. sep 2021 - Perspektiv

Bygga morgondagens ledare

31. aug 2021 - Berättelser

Alltid rädd för att det hemska ska hända igen

24. aug 2021 - Berättelser

NRC Flyktinghjälpen stannar kvar i Afghanistan

18. aug 2021 - Perspektiv

Äntligen tillbaka i skolan

16. aug 2021 - Berättelser

Det finns ett akut behov av att investera i utbildning till barn på flykt

16. aug 2021 - Berättelser

Kommer han att tvingas välja Medelhavet igen?

08. jul 2021 - Perspektiv

Norwegian Refugee Council constructed a primary school in Barsanguni village in Kismayo town, lower Jubba region. The school comprises of four temporary classrooms, an office, four gender-segregated latrines and child friendly space.

Both local community and Jubbaland state’s Ministry of Education actively engaged in the site identification, mobilization, enrolment of students, and construction of the primary school for the vulnerable host-communities.

A total of 587 students (320 boys, 267 girls) were enrolled and are currently attending morning and afternoon classes. The school uses the recently launched Somali curriculum and operates up to grade-3. The school has 5 teachers who are provided with teacher incentives by NRC.

Nine community education committees (CEC members) 3 of them females have been given capacity building training on school management, leadership and CEC roles. The CEC members are currently taking part in the day to day management of the primary school.

Children in Barsanguni didn’t have opportunity to attend to school due to lack of school in the area. Before the collapse of the Siyad Barre regime in 1990, the village only had a 2 classroom school those were later destroyed by the warring sides during the civil war. The village had no school since then, leaving hundreds of children without education.

Somalia has one of the lowest primary school enrolment rates in the world. More than three million children in Somalia are out of school. Those in South and Central Somalia are affected the worst. Parents are not able to fund their children’s education. In addition to poverty, long distances to school, and safety concerns.

The Integrated protection solutions for women and children affected by displacement is a project that seeks to substantially reduce challenges that are impeding the protection and recovery potentials of women and children affected by displacement

To achieve this overarching goal, specialized protection services are combined with tangible assistance packages to assist displacement affected communities develop resilient capacities necessary to address protection issues affecting women and children.

Specific priorities include ensuring displacement affected children and youth learn in protective and child-friendly environment, strengthening and expanding prevention and response to Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and access to protection services for IDPs, and consolidating recovery potentials for displaced women and youth. A total of 20,204 individuals are targeted across four hotspot districts in Jubaland (Kismayo) and Somaliland (Buroa, Hargeia, and Erigavo). This project is generously funded by King Salman Humanitarian Aid & Relief Centre (KSrelief).

Photo: Abdulkadir/NRC.

”Min passion för läraryrket håller mig igång”

29. jun 2021 - Perspektiv

Barnen som är rädda för skolan

16. jun 2021 - Berättelser

Barnen i Gaza återupplever bombningarna i sina drömmar

02. jun 2021 - Perspektiv

Neglected Crises List

Världens mest försummade kriser år 2020

28. maj 2021 - Feature

Staden med de bortglömda flyktingarna

21. maj 2021 - Berättelser

Dadji is a young mother from PK 13 in Bangui. She fled the violence 3 years ago to Chad. Dadji and her children decided to return to Kaga Bandoro recently. They haven’t received any food assistance for four months now.

"When we arrived we were given food, but since then nothing. We are forced to fetch wood from the bush and sell it to get something to eat.

We need help. Where we are, we don't have a school or a hospital.
The international community has forgotten us. For four months we have not received any help.

I am afraid because we are not safe, even in this camp. All over the country, when we sleep at night, we are afraid." Dadji said.

Date: 10th February 2021
Location: Mbela camp - Kaga Bandoro
Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC

Vi behöver din hjälp för att stoppa negligerandet

18. maj 2021 - Perspektiv

NRC Flyktinghjälpens obesjungna hjältar

12. maj 2021 - Perspektiv

Under 2020 hjälpte vi nästan 12 miljoner människor

30. apr 2021 - Perspektiv

Möt NRC Flyktinghjälpens vardagshjältar

26. apr 2021 - Perspektiv

75 år för människor på flykt

19. apr 2021 - Perspektiv

Sex år av fullständig förödelse

26. mar 2021 - Berättelser

Ten-year-old Osama has not known any other life than being a refugee. He was born two months after his family fled to Za’atari camp in Jordan in 2012.

“When the situation in Syria deteriorated I had no choice than to leave to get my family to safety,” says Osama’s father, Mohammad, 49. “I through we would return after two months but did I never imagined 10 years would pass by and we would still be refugees.”

Osama only knows Syria through the story of his parents. In fact, he has never even met any of his relatives living in Syria. “I show him the videos they send on WhatsApp to me and I tell him who everyone is,” says Mohammed.

“My dad tells me about his childhood in Syria, what our house was like and about my grandfather and that he was a very good man. He always tried to help people and I wish I had met him before he died,” says Osama. “I like to look at pictures of him and see the farm where my dad grew up.”

“My son, Osama, can’t even dream of the future because he has lived in limbo his entire life. I encourage him to study and do sports and take any training opportunity he can get but I really don’t know what type of future he will face if we remain refugees,” Mohammad concludes.

Photo: Daniel Wheeler/NRC

Född flykting

19. mar 2021 - Perspektiv

Ett decennium av krig

17. mar 2021 - Berättelser

Att bli mamma i en krigszon

12. mar 2021 - Perspektiv

Arwads liv som flykting under pandemin

08. mar 2021 - Perspektiv

Åtta sätt som vi står upp för kvinnors rättigheter

05. mar 2021 - Perspektiv

After receiving training in construction and masonry, former child soldier Mark* constructs a latrine outside his grandmothers house in Kasai-Central, DRC.

*Name changed to protect identity

Photo: Itunu Kuku/NRC

En före detta barnsoldats största kamp

02. mar 2021 - Perspektiv

"Det nya normala": Hjälpinsatser vid frontlinjen

25. feb 2021 - Berättelser

A child drinking water in Kharef camp, Yemen, thanks to a new solar-powered pump linked to a borehole.

När vattnet tar slut

15. feb 2021 - Berättelser

Ali, 16, drinks water from an animal trough, constructed by NRC and funded by FCDO. Photo: Abdulkadir/NRC

Hur borrhål förändrar liv i Somalia

11. feb 2021 - Perspektiv

Som månadsgivare är du en del av något speciellt i Sudan

08. feb 2021 - Perspektiv

Lebanese and Syrian children, who were affected by the Beirut explosion, are participating in the Psychosocial support sessions implemented by the Norwegian Refugee Council to help them deal with their traumas.

Photo: Zaynab Mayladan/NRC

Hjälper Beiruts barn att läka

04. feb 2021 - Perspektiv

Skräddarkarriärer för ungdomar i Somaliland

28. jan 2021 - Perspektiv

Att undervisa under en pandemi

22. jan 2021 - Perspektiv

Displaced by conflict in 2014, Sidamari had to flee from her home in Hong to Cameroon. She and her two children at the time were forced to stay in the bushes for many nights with only 200 naira at her disposal.

"I used to teach in a private school then, and things were okay for us. They (Opposition Armed Groups) came in the morning on that day and the only thing we could do was run."

It was so bad she could not feed her then 5 months old child. It was just her and her two year old child at the time that had to flee.

Now, she is back to Mubi where there is relative calm with her family and is one of our Education Facilitators.

"I am happy doing this job especially when i know that the children understand what i am teaching them"

She's glad to be a part of the NRC family.

Photo: Samuel Jegede/NRC

Efter lockdown ger utbildning hopp till Nigeria

22. jan 2021 - Perspektiv

När coronalarmet gick

13. jan 2021 - Perspektiv

Äntligen kan Amina (7) le

12. jan 2021 - Perspektiv

Glimtar av hopp

21. dec 2020 - Perspektiv

Abdul-Aziz whispering on her mom ear

När Dijlas älskade hus bombades i kriget mot IS

21. dec 2020 - Perspektiv

Hur vi ger flyktingar en plats de kan kalla sitt hem

18. dec 2020 - Berättelser

Flydde och flyttade in i fiendens hus

18. dec 2020 - Perspektiv

Sista minuten-förhandlingar skyddade Ahmed från vräkning

15. dec 2020 - Perspektiv

Her family fled to Lebanon from their home in Syria after being caught up in the war there, in 2013.

They moved into their current tent in 2006.Thanks to wood supplied by NRC, the family have been able to double the size of their home since they first bought it from its previous tenant. NRC also supplied and maintains toilets in their settlement, supplies water for drinking and washing, hygiene kits and waterproofing materials.

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Photo: Sam Tarling/NRC

Hur Fatima gjorde tältet till ett familjehem

09. dec 2020 - Perspektiv

Foto: Det kongelige hoff

Mötte ungdomar på flykt

07. dec 2020 - Perspektiv

Richards uppdrag: att göra hus till hem

04. dec 2020 - Perspektiv

Monique poses for a photo behind her new house.

Photo. Itunu Kuku/NRC

Äntligen hemma efter fem månader på flykt i skogen

27. nov 2020 - Perspektiv

Den stora julklappsguiden – ge en gåva med mening

25. nov 2020 - Perspektiv

Fyra år under en presenning

24. nov 2020 - Perspektiv

Mahmoud’s family received help from the Norwegian Refugee Council to complete repairs to their home after it was damaged by the explosion at Beirut port on August 4th.

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Photo: Sam Tarling/NRC

Deras hem förstördes i kriget – sen small det igen

23. nov 2020 - Perspektiv

Fatima Bashir, 9, sits with her mother Sarah Mohammad Omara Shehadeh, 42, in her family’s apartment in Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon, on October 23, 2020.

«Hemma» är där hoppet bor

20. nov 2020 - Berättelser

Sju skäl till varför ett hem är mer än bara tak över huvudet

16. nov 2020 - Perspektiv

Sara Ishaq, 17 years old

Då Sara var sju och skulle gifta sig

23. okt 2020 - Global överblick

Flickorna på den afghanske drömakademin

16. okt 2020 - Perspektiv

– Om inte viruset tar livet av oss riskerar vi att dö av svält

28. sep 2020 - Perspektiv

NORCAP experts have helped set up the new camp on Moria, after fires destroyed the previous camp. We also have a site planner on the island, supporting coordination and setting up water tanks and sewage facilities. (Photo: NORCAP/Alkisti Mavraki) September 2020

Vi är på plats i Moria

25. sep 2020 - Perspektiv

Flyktinglägret på Lesbos är nedbränt till grunden

11. sep 2020 - Grekland

“Comparing the school general condition now and last year, you can tell a lot has changed to the better; now there are windows and doors and we are not sitting on the floor any longer since NRC provided desks and tables. Also improvements in the way the teacher explained information helped us understand them in a better way and the new learning spaces made us love school and willing to attend it every day”. *Khalil Student –5 grade – Harasta school

Glädjer sig över skolan

09. sep 2020 - Perspektiv

Photo: Mahmoud Al-Filstini/NRC

Marwa Rasheed, aged 9, fled her home in Taiz and now lives in Al-Meshqafa camp with her family. “We have been living here for two years. We don’t go to school because of corona,” she says. “I’m trying to study at home until the end of the coronavirus' rules and then we can go back to school.”

Mellanöstern: Rädsla för Covid-19 utlöser en alarmerande ökning av stress hos barn på flykt

01. sep 2020 - Mellanöstern

Photo: Racha El Daoi/NRC

Hundratusentals blev hemlösa på ett ögonblick

06. aug 2020 - Perspektiv

Rachel is twenty-years-old and lives with her parents, siblings and her 2-year-old daughter (name: Guylaine). She became pregnant when she was 17 with a boy from her village, but he disappeared when he revealed that she was expecting his child. Since August 2018, Rachel has been attending the NRC tailoring class in Kitchanga. These courses will last six months. After training, her dream is to start her own tailoring shop and to be able to give her daughter an education to in the future. She loves tailoring and she has made dresses for herself and her daughter. Before she was selected for the NRC tailoring class, she had nothing to do and now she is very happy to be able to attend the classes.

Rachel is from the village Ngingwe, Masisi territory, which is six kilometers from Kitchanga in the North Kivu province. She and her family had to flee during the night four years ago when the clashes broke out between armed groups. They travelled the whole night and reached Kitchanga in the morning. Rachel was very afraid when she had to flee and during this violence where she lost her grandmother and uncle. She misses them a lot. Rachel is still constantly afraid, and does not want to go back home until it’s safe. Since the attack, some people from the village have been back home to pick up food and their belongings, but they cannot sleep there, as the situation is still unsafe. Rachel has not been back home in Ngingwe since she and her family fled their home.

Rachel does not feel safe in Kitchanga either. She is scared that armed groups will enter Kitchanga and take over the town in the future. She does not feel well about being a displaced youth in Kitchanga. It is a big challenge for her because she is sometimes neglected. Since she also a single mother, people austersize her.

There’s also a lack of food in Kitchanga, and Rachel does not have enough money to pay school fees, therefore she dropped out of school after second grade in secondary school. Rachel also struggles to pay for health care and clothes for her daughter. After tailoring class, she usually helps her mother to do some household activities, for instance, fetching water and cooking dinner.

Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

De bortglömda unga

29. jun 2020 - Perspektiv

Covid-19 och konflikter: en dödlig blandning

24. jun 2020 - Global överblick

79,5 miljoner människor på flykt i coronatider

22. jun 2020 - Global överblick

”80 miljoner människor på flykt är en fällande dom över det nuvarande globala ledarskapet”

18. jun 2020 - Global

Portrait of a displaced woman at one of the unformal sites hosting displaced families in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria.

Världens mest försummade flyktingkriser

10. jun 2020 - Berättelser

We use an illustration photo in order to protect “David’s” identity. The photo is from Brasil and was taken in August 2019. The man in the photo worked on a coffee farm in conditions analogous to slavery. Photo: Adriano Machado/Reuters/NTB Scanpix

Ansikte mot ansikte med en slav

27. maj 2020 - Berättelser

Coronavirus: Det här gör vi

08. maj 2020 - Global

Solidaritet får inte stanna vid vår gräns

24. apr 2020 - Afghanistan

The protracted crisis in the Donbas region of Ukraine is well into its sixth year. The contact line continues to separate Government controlled area (GCA) and Non-Government controlled area (NGCA) of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. This separation isolates much of the population in GCA from important services and livelihood providers in urban centres in NGCA. Along the 427-kilometre contact line, there are five open exit-entry checkpoints (EECP) in Hnutove, Novotroitske, Marinka, Maiorsk and Stanytsia Luhanska, where internally displaced and conflict-affected people cross to visit relatives, buy food and other goods, receive social payments and check on their property.

Since the opening of these EECPs, the number of people crossing the contact line continues to grow. Every month, there are about 1,3 million people recorded crossing through all five of the EECPs. Long queues and correspondingly, long waiting times at checkpoints continue to be reported. During their journey to cross the contact line, very often people face difficult weather conditions and slow processing times. These civilians who cross the contact line have limited access to basic services such as drinking water, latrines, weather shelters, heating, and medical care.

Photo: Dmytro Tielushkin/The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Sex fakta efter sex år av kris

14. apr 2020 - Perspektiv

A Syrian boy poses for a picture during an awareness workshop on coronavirus (COVID-19) at a camp for displaced people in Atme town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, near the border with Turkey. Photo: AAREF WATAD / AFP / NTB Scanpix

10 saker du bör veta om coronaviruset och flyktingar

19. mar 2020 - Global

With support from the Norwegian government, NRC is providing thousands of soaps to Afghan families living in settlements in Iran to encourage hand washing, the most effective preventive measure for COVID-19. Distribution is paired with hygiene promotion messaging through different leaflets reinforcing key points provided by the Ministry of Health.

NRC Flyktinghjälpen trappar upp sitt arbete

19. mar 2020 - Perspektiv

Jeanette witnessed her three children being killed.

Jeanette tvingades bevittna morden på sina tre barn

11. mar 2020 - Berättelser

Över 900 000 människor på flykt

28. feb 2020 - Syrien

Sex saker du bör veta om den humanitära krisen i Idlib

28. feb 2020 - Perspektiv

Fatoumata, 67 and her family moved several times to escape from armed attacks. Originally from Sigue-Raguin, she fled the first time to seek safety in Foubé. But the executions and threats continued and they had to flee from Foubé to Kaya.

"The armed men have chased us away from our homes and killed our loved ones. That’s why we fled and came here. We don’t have any food, we don’t have a roof over our head, we have nothing at all. We are asking for assistance." She said.

"We left yesterday and arrived here today. We haven’t eaten anything since the sun rose.

Just the day before yesterday, 6 people were caught and killed while they were on the road. After this, the attackers went to… I don’t remember where, but so many people have been killed.

We were all filled with fear so we immediately took to the road and by the grace of God we were able to escape. Our wish is to settle down in peace and receive some food or any other assistance. What we need the most is some assistance and a place where we can stay. All we are praying for now is to receive some assistance." Fatoumata added.

Date: 21 January 2020
Location: Kaya - Center North Burkina Faso
Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC

Fem saker du bör veta om krisen i Burkina Faso

07. feb 2020 - Perspektiv

AFGHANISTAN/Mazar-i-Sharif
Nov 2019
Photo: Ingrid Prestetun /NRC

Mama khal- Mahmood (67): at the NRC distributing point waiting to receive money to bay a stove and firewood for the winter.

She is a widow and female HH living with her grandsons/ daughters. There are 16 members in her family. She is making wool waving to support her family and additionally her closed relatives collect money from people and support her on monthly basis with very small amount of money.

The family is included in NRC's shelter upgrade project and winterization program.

Hur Ana fick tak över huvudet

29. jan 2020 - Perspektiv

“It was very cold inside and I thought if I go outside and walk I might feel warmer,” says Roqia, 11, standing outside her makeshift home in a snowy day in KABUL.

Rogia doesn’t have enough clothes and proper slippers to keep her warm in a cold. Her family do not have sufficient firewood to keep the oven burning all the time and they only burn it once in a day and if the weather is freezing cold, they might burn it twice in a day. They burn plastics, cartons, packets and other waste materials they have collected during the summer season.
“The house we have is out of plastic bags, blankets and mud. As soon as the oven dies the home gets cold,” she says. “It’s very cold during the night and we wakeup many times due to cold. Sometimes, I feel pain and burn in my feet, legs and back due to the cold.”

Kabul gets very cold during the winter and last night only, the temperature dropped to -16 Celsius. Photo: Enayatullah Azad/ NRC

Kabul drabbat av kyla och snö

20. jan 2020 - Perspektiv

– Bästa gåvan vi kunde få

17. dec 2019 - Perspektiv

Syrien: Oron ökar för en humanitär kris

17. okt 2019 - Mellanöstern|Syrien

SYRIA: Civilians fleeing Turkish bombardment on the northeastern towns along the Turkish border. Photo: Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP / NTB Scanpix.

Syrien: Tusentals flyr för sina liv

15. okt 2019 - Mellanöstern|Syrien

Jan Egeland visited an informal site in Kabul where 144 displaced families live. Most of the people living in this site are displaced from their homes in Nangarhar and were displaced due to conflict.

NRC has supported the families living here with building houses, latrines and water pumps.

Photo: Becky Bakr Abdulla/NRC

”För ögonblicket går allt i fel riktning i Syrien”

10. sep 2019 - Sverige|Syrien

Yasin Ismail has been working for NRC for five years and believes NRC is one of the best organisation to work for. Yasin started working for NRC as an Education Assistant and is now an Education Coordinator at NRC's Aden area office.

Yasin believes education is a critical component of the work NRC does, because of its great impact on people’s lives. He recognises it as a basic human right, important to the development of children and youth to fulfill their potential, and critical to breaking the inter-generational cycle of poverty.

The impact of the conflict in Yemen has been catastrophic. Schools have been destroyed or occupied by armed groups or displaced populations, which have deprived children in some areas from accessing school for more than four years.

Children in Yemen are struggling to cope with the violence they have faced during the conflict, and continue to face imminent danger as conflict carries on and exposes them to UXOs, mines and crossfire.

Yasin believes the security situation, which results in restricted access and unpredictable funding for education, are two of the main challenges in his job. He said that affected communities need access to aid but will sometimes have challenges accessing this due to long delays at checkpoints or challenges reaching distribution sites.

Yasin wants to help and support those affected by war in Yemen and believes that we can change the world with education. “[We should] Always follow our dreams and believe in ourselves. For every ending - there is a new beginning, for every memory - there is a dream ahead.”

"I hope for peace and stability for our people and country. I hope for our children and youth to get quality education because that will help them to build their future. I believe the education is the only approach to protect future generations, because it gives people a chance for healthy development, restores a sense of normality, and provides important life skills. Further to that, an education intervention is an investment in the long-term future, and in the peace, stability and economic growth of Yemen”.

More information:
These kids, like many others, leave for school very early because it takes them an hour or as long as two hours for some to walk. Ensuring children have sufficient access to nutrition is very important for children expending huge amounts of energy on commuting, learning and playing, and ensures they are able to engage appropriately in class. Lialy was among the children without anything to eat before coming to school. NRC has started to provide high energy biscuits to children in Lialy's school, who expressed their happiness at receiving the biscuits. Several children mentioned feeling more energetic and active as a result, and said they could concentrate more in class.

Information about the school:
Al-Qadisia school is located in Al-Qubbiyta district in Lahj and was one of the first schools in which NRC has delivered programmes. NRC's team describe the AlQadisia as a normal school with an engaged community but experiencing problems including nearby landmines. As displaced families continue to move into the area, the number of students at the school continues to grow, creating overcrowding. NRC's programme is supporting rehabilitation of the school building, distribution of recreational, cleaning and scholastic materials, training of teachers and provision of high energy biscuits for students.

Education in Hard to Reach Areas:
One of NRC’s global priorities is to deliver aid and services to people in hard to reach areas. We worked with the Education Department to select this school and others identified as being among the most in need. In travelling to the school form NRC's office in Aden, staff encounter several checkpoints, threatened areas and landmines.

Our programming in Yemen's southern governorates reaches people in Lahj, Abyan and Al-Dalea, among other areas. Operating in these areas is complicated and challenging: our staff travel through checkpoints, some of which create traffic, preventing access to project sites. Several areas remain affected or threatened by conflict, explosions are often heard, landmines dot areas across Yemen and bureaucratic challenges delay or complicate processes.

Where mines explode, civilians can suffer on multiple levels as people cannot only sustain injuries, but lose mobility and access to fields and other sites used for cultivation.

Efforts should be made to call on the authorities and specialised organisations to strengthen demining operations and reduce the number of civilian casualties.

Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

Yasin är hjälparbetare i ett av världens farligaste länder

14. jun 2019 - Jemen

Riyad, a Syrian refugee who came to Jordan in 2013 with his family. He settled in Jerash, north of Jordan. Riyad was relying on the assistance he receives from different organisations. It was not enough, and he could not handle the idea of staying home and do nothing. That is when his journey started to find a job.

Photo: Hassan Hijazi/ NRC

Trädplantering i Jordanien: En inkomstkälla för flyktingar och en lunga för landet

12. jun 2019 - Jordanien

Allt fler på flykt i Mali – ökning med 360 procent förra året

10. jun 2019 - Mali

Minette (38) and her family fled from Manyu and sought safety in Buea after their home was burned down. They have received some plastic sheeting and utensils from NRC, and they have built a temporary kitchen at their new place in Buea.

Photo: NRC/Tiril Skarstein

Kamerun toppar listan över försummade flyktingkriser

07. jun 2019 - Kamerun

Lista: 10 saker DU kan göra för världens flyktingar

06. jun 2019 - Global

Det här händer när katastrofer försummas

03. jun 2019 - Global

Eden didn’t tell her parents she was fleeing Eritrea and leaving them. She has dreams of reaching Europe and being reunited with her brother in Germany, but he doesn’t want his little sister to take the dangerous journey.
"I had to leave Eritrea. Life there is really hard."

We first meet the twenty-year-old in a refugee camp in northern Ethiopia. It’s dry season, and the temperature is rising quickly during the morning hours, reaching almost 40 degrees. The ground is dusty and the trees don’t have enough green leaves to protect us from the sun.

Eden greets us outside the bright turquoise-painted house as we arrive, asking us to come inside. "I’ve lived here for a little more than a year now," she says.

She didn’t plan to stay that long.

"I want to go to Sudan, then Libya and further on to Europe," she explains. And yes, she is aware that it is a dangerous journey. She has friends who have taken the same route, some of whom made it to Europe. Others didn’t complete the journey.

Keeping her parents in the dark
In 2017, more than 25,000 Eritreans fled across the southern border of their country to Ethiopia. Most of them are youth and minors, and many fled alone. Most cite Eritrea’s mandatory national service, which is compulsory for citizens from the age of 18, as the main reason for leaving the country.

Four years ago, Eden’s 27-year-old brother made it to Germany. He took the long, dangerous journey through Sudan and Libya and across the sea to Europe. In November 2016, Eden decided to do the same. She said nothing to her family.

"If I had told them, I’m certain they would have stopped me."

First, she went to her grandfather’s place to hide from the military. While she was there, she asked her aunt to send her some money, which she then paid to a smuggler. On the day she left, she saw her father in the street. She managed to hide from him.

"I regret that I didn’t have the chance to say goodbye to him," she says, tears in her eyes. It was not an easy decision to leave her mother, father and siblings, but Eden felt she had no other choice.

As I see it, I have two options in life: to succeed or to fail. I have heard it’s very difficult, but as long as going through Sudan and Libya is the only way to reach Europe, that’s what I want to do."
Eden, 20.
Hid from the military
Along with a group of 16 others, she embarked on the journey from Asmara, the Eritrean capital. They walked for five days before the military showed up and started shooting, forcing them to hide for two days with no food or water. The entire time, Eden was afraid they would get caught. She knew there are penalties for evading or deserting the service. In the end, they decided to go back to Asmara. There, the smuggler called, urging them to continue the journey. Eden, along with four others from the original group, decided to try a second time, and about a week later, they arrived at the Ethiopian border.

"I miss my family. They didn’t support my wish to leave and my aunt considers me a thief. The only family I have now are the girls I stay with."

In the camp, Eden shares a small house with five young women her age. They didn’t know each other before they arrived but have become good friends. All of them left their families and fled their home country in similar fashion. Eden has not been in touch with her parents since she left, but when the internet works, she chats with her sister on Facebook. Earlier this week, she called her brother in Germany.

"He doesn’t want me to leave for Europe and keeps telling me to stay in the camp because there will be opportunities for me in Ethiopia."

Will either fail or succeed
Eden has made up her mind.

"As I see it, I have two options in life: to succeed or to fail. I have heard it’s very difficult, but as long as going through Sudan and Libya is the only way to reach Europe, that’s what I want to do."

Facts
Eden is not alone. Most of the Eritrean refugees leave the camps within the first year of their arrival. Many attempt the journey to Europe, often with assistance of smugglers and at great risk to their lives.

"The only reason I’m still here is that it has become more difficult to go. My plan is to go, and I will take the same route as everybody else. I don’t know when. It could be tomorrow, the day after, in a month or a year, but as soon as the sea-border is open, I will go."

Big plans
Eden spends her time in the camp planning for the future. Along with her roommate Winta, 23, she goes to cooking classes at the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) youth education centre in the camp.

"I am very happy that I have not wasted my year in the camp. Unlike others, who just sit around doing nothing, I have studied and worked hard," she says with a smile.

The next day, she will sit the cooking exam that will give her the Ethiopian government’s official certificate. She is not nervous.

“I am feeling fine. I am well prepared, and our teachers have been very good, so I hope I will pass.”

On the day of her cooking exam, we meet her at the youth education centre. She is wearing her cooking clothes and hat and looks ready.

During the six-month course, she has learned how to cook various meals, make sauces and bake bread. She has followed lessons in proper kitchen hygiene, learned how to make the table and serve customers. On examination day, she is showing her skills to the examination proctor from the Ethiopian government.

An hour later, she has a big smile on her face. She passed the exam.

“I have got a lot of plans,” she says, serving us freshly made club sandwiches, potato bread and salad. “I would like to work in the restaurant of a big hotel, preferably in Europe. Then, with time, I want to open my own restaurant. I will call it Asmara.” Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

Varför blir vissa katastrofer ignorerade?

28. maj 2019 - Global

Aden, Yemen. NRC’s education assistant Malka Mohammed (26) speaking with a young girl.

Vi hjälpte 8,5 miljoner människor förra året

23. maj 2019 - Global

Sarah, 10, is fixing her veil on the mirror hung on the wall of their new shelter.

Photo: Nadine Malli/NRC

Livet på flykt: Sarah har flyttat 30 gånger på åtta år

22. maj 2019 - Libanon

Yazan, is enrolled with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) first cycle of basic literacy and numeracy programme in Lebanon. He is learning English, Arabic, and mathematics. “My favorite subject is Arabic. I think it’s much easier than the English because it’s very hard for me to understand the English words,” Yazan explains.

Photo: Nadine Malli/NRC

Förlorad generation: Pengabrist hotar flyktingbarnens utbildning i Libanon

20. maj 2019 - Libanon

Aden, Yemen.
NRC’s education assistant Malka Mohammed (26) remembers March of 2015 well and how it went from being a joyful month of celebrations and weddings before it turned into a living nightmare. She worked as an English teacher in her home city of Aden when one day her colleague came running to her classroom, knocking madly on the door and shouting: "They’re attacking the city!"

"We evacuated the school, there was a lot of confusion. There was shooting everywhere," she recounts.

Over the next few weeks, it got worse and the fighting drew closer to Malka’s home.

"Every day I heard stories of how people had been killed and I saw the remains of destroyed buildings. It scared me to death. I was particularly afraid during those early morning hours around 5 am when the airstrikes began."

She remembers one day waking up to the screams of the little girl next door.

"I ran out on to the streets without wearing my abaya or even a scarf on my head. I was running like crazy and the street was full of people. It felt like it was going to be the last day on earth, the sky was covered in red lightening."

Malka and her mother ran as fast as they could. They eventually reached a house and were welcomed in by the people living there. They stayed until the next morning.

A stranger helped Malka that day. Now, she is helping others.

As an education assistant in southern Yemen, her job is to make sure children living in the midst of conflict can still access school. Through our education work, we rehabilitate and rebuild schools destroyed by shelling and other attacks, we distribute school materials, teach teachers and organise school feeding.

"We cannot lose education in Yemen. If we lose education, we can lose a whole generation," she says, and continues: "Education is so important, and that’s why we try to support young Yemenis to create a better life for themselves, and a future." Photo: Ingrid Prestetun/NRC

Dagbok från det blodiga kriget i Jemen

17. maj 2019 - Jemen

Hana, mother of seven children, fled Hawija in 2017 as the Iraqi government retook the city, one of the last remaining IS strongholds, to a displacement camp in Kirkuk governorate. Intelligence officials confiscated her civil documentation after she arrived in the camp. "My husband joined IS while the group was in control, but he died in an airstrike with my eldest son in 2017," she says. Now she and her children are alone and unable to leave the camp, barred from attending school and denied access to healthcare and social welfare.

"My husband took the wrong path. He took my oldest son and left us to fight with Islamic State. They are both dead now, and I am alone in this camp with my young children. Three of them don't even have identity documents (ID). My husband destroyed our lives, me and my children suffer," the widow says.

Her three children born under IS rule do not possess birth certificates and, as a result, cannot obtain IDs. She says during the winter, her children got sick from the cold but was unable to take them to a hospital outside the camp.

She tried to seek assistance from a lawyer working with a humanitarian organization to start the procedure to formally divorce her husband and try get her ID back and obtain documents for her children, but they said they were unable to assist because of accusations of IS affiliation. She says the humanitarian assistance she receives is limited because priority is given to those can provide identification.

* Name was changed for protection concerns.
Photo : Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC

Ny rapport: 45 000 barn riskerar att bli statslösa i Irak

15. maj 2019 - Irak

The only government services available in the camp for Nada's daughters, including schooling and food distribution, are inaccessible. The school in the camp requires children to provide documentation to enroll and government assistance is only distributed to those with IDs.

NRC has found that, in displacement camps alone, about 45,000 children, or one in every five children, are now estimated to be missing birth certificates.

Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC

Irak: Saknade id-handlingar – nekades förlossningshjälp

13. maj 2019 - Irak

Ung mamma och på flykt i Jemen

10. maj 2019 - Jemen

Människor som dödas och hus som sätts i brand – här är 5 fakta om den nya krisen i Kamerun

08. maj 2019 - Kamerun