displaces

Saturday April 25, 2026 Severe drought has driven at least 62,000 people from their homes in five districts across Somalia since the beginning of 2026, as the country faces mounting climate pressures, the International Organization for Migration said on Friday. The United Nations migration agency said its data shows drought is now responsible for three out of every four new displacements, marking a 22 percent increase from a year earlier and underscoring the worsening toll of climate shocks. Manuel Marques Pereira, IOM’s…

Gulf crisis deepens as UN warns of mass displacement in Iran and tankers burn off Iraq The United Nations’ refugee agency warned that as many as 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced since the war began almost two weeks ago, as fresh maritime attacks sent oil prices surging back above $100 a barrel and widened fears of a prolonged global energy shock. “This figure is likely to continue rising as hostilities persist, marking a worrying escalation in humanitarian needs,” the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said,…

Assaults via armed teams in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province have pressured greater than 500,000 other folks to escape their houses, whereas practically half of of the internally displaced are youth, a UN company acknowledged on Monday. Whereas over 90% of IDPs reside with host households, lack of confidence in November remained "prevalent in some districts of the province of Cabo Delgado, with some inhabitants stream caused via lack of confidence and restricted get entry to to northern…