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Nov 5, 2024 | 
unhcr.org | Lalla Sy
An open doorUnder the CAR Solutions Support Platform, a multi-year plan was approved by the CAR Government to facilitate the return of 300,000 Central African refugees from neighboring countries by 2028. This initiative aligns with the National Durable Solutions Strategy. Recent surveys in asylum countries, including Cameroon, revealed that 23 per cent of respondents (approximately 80,000 individuals) intend to return to CAR if basic services are accessible.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
reliefweb.int | Lalla Sy
As the security situation improves in some areas of the Central African Republic, UNHCR has supported more than 12,000 refugees to return home from neighbouring countries this year. By Lalla Sy in Timangolo refugee camp, CameroonThe atmosphere in the Timangolo refugee camp in eastern Cameroon is filled with excitement as refugees from the Central Africa Republic (CAR) prepare for a long-awaited journey home.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
fr.allafrica.com | Lalla Sy
En Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre, les communautés hôtes offrent un soutien inestimable aux personnes déplacées de force, partageant nourriture et abri malgré leurs propres difficultés. Cette solidarité se reflète aussi bien en Côte d'Ivoire qu'au Mali et au Tchad, où l'entraide entre populations hôtes et réfugiés est cruciale face aux défis humanitaires.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Lalla Sy
In West and Central Africa, host communities are offering invaluable support to forcibly displaced people, sharing food and shelter despite their own difficulties. This solidarity is reflected as much in Côte d'Ivoire as in Mali and Chad, where mutual support between host populations and refugees is crucial in the face of humanitarian challenges.
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May 2, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Moulid Hujale |Lalla Sy
A year since the outbreak of Sudan's conflict, sexual and other forms of violence are rife in conflict zones and on asylum routes, while a lack of funding is hampering UNHCR's response. A year ago, when fighting first broke out in Sudan's capital Khartoum, 39-year-old Fatima* thought the safest option for her and her four children was to stay indoors.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
unhcr.org | Moulid Hujale |Lalla Sy
In 2023, UNHCR recorded a surge in cases of gender-based violence in eastern Chad where most refugees from Sudan have arrived, more than double the previous year. The true scale of the problem is likely even greater, with severe under-reporting of incidents due to fear of stigma and retaliation – a trend repeated in other countries hosting refugees from Sudan.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Lalla Sy
Tens of thousands of Chadian families fleeing intercommunal conflicts have recently arrived in the Central African Republic. UNHCR and the local authority are trying to relocate them away from the border but resources to support them are overstretched. Alain Ndoubayo, 45, is impatiently waiting at a food distribution centre in Betoko in north-western Central African Republic (CAR). He fled Chad in mid-May after an altercation with herders in which he lost three fingers on his left hand.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
t.ly | Lalla Sy
Alain Ndoubayo, 45, is impatiently waiting at a food distribution centre in Betoko in north-western Central African Republic (CAR). He fled Chad in mid-May after an altercation with herders in which he lost three fingers on his left hand. "I had all my harvest and millet stocks in my field, and herders brought in their cattle, which ate everything. When I protested, one of them took out his machete and wanted to bring it down on my head.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
unhcr.org | Lalla Sy
Sudanese refugees fleeing Darfur find safety in ChadZeinab, 22, recalls the morning in May when armed men attacked her house in El Geneina, capital of Sudan’s West Darfur State. They shot her husband and his five brothers while she hid with her two children. Zeinab’s husband later succumbed to a gunshot wound to his stomach. Some of his brothers died days later. After Zeinab and her children left the house “they burned it down and all the other houses around.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
reliefweb.int | Lalla Sy
**After fleeing horrific violence in Sudan’s West Darfur, refugees are arriving to Chad traumatized and with children who are often malnourished. By Lalla Sy in Farchana, Chad**Zeinab, 22, recalls the morning in May when armed men attacked her house in El Geneina, capital of Sudan’s West Darfur State. They shot her husband and his five brothers while she hid with her two children. Zeinab’s husband later succumbed to a gunshot wound to his stomach. Some of his brothers died days later.
