Since August 2016, more than 1.3 million people have been displaced in the Great Kasai region, which currently hosts over a third of IDPs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Violence broke out after the killing of a community leader on 12 August 2016 and fighting between the national government and the local militia […]
Since April 2013, the North East of Nigeria has witnessed an escalation of violence which reached the territory of Niger in February 2015 with attacks taking place in the communes of Bosso and Diffa, resulting in substantial population displacement. The Diffa region alone hosts 94,152 Nigerian refugees, 44,162 returnees, and 46,988 IDPs, the majority of […]
In April and May 2015, two devastating earthquakes struck Nepal and affected the lives of almost 8 million people. In the direct aftermath, REACH was deployed to Nepal in May 2015 in partnership with the Global Shelter Cluster to coordinate an inter-agency assessment which would enable the identification of emergency needs, define a comprehensive shelter […]
Following the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine in early 2014 and despite two successive ceasefires in September 2014 and February 2015, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate. To date, the conflict has affected an estimated 5.2 million people and caused the internal displacement of more than 1.4 million in eastern Ukraine. Internal displacement has […]
