Africa | 2019-2020
- Title
- Ethiopia. Sharp rise in Somali arrivals as drought and insecurity worsens
- Description
- A woman and three children, Somali refugees, are pictured in the grounds of a World Vision school being used as a temporary shelter in Bur Amino, Ethiopia.
- Worsening drought, and violence from armed extremist group al Shabaab, has caused more than 5,000 Somalis to seek refuge in Ethiopia so far this year – four times the number that crossed the border in 2018. The extremists have struck fear into the hearts of many and the climate emergency has fuelled a cycle of vulnerability for pastoralists and farmers. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, more than 2 million people are at risk of severe hunger as Somalia faces its worst harvest since the 2011 famine that internally displaced 1.5 million people. With al Shabaab extorting money, forcing residents to grow crops that fail and forcibly recruiting child soldiers, families increasingly have no choice but to flee.
- UNHCR
- Creator
- Jalil, Eduardo Soteras
- Identifier
- RF2248995
- Date Created
- September 5, 2019
- Format
- Digital photographs
- Extent
- 4000 x 6000
- 14MB
- Source
- UNHCR
- Coverage
- Somalia
- Spatial Coverage
- Somalia
- Rights
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- Rights Holder
- © UNHCR/Eduardo Soteras Jalil
- Item sets
- Never in One Place
- Media
- Title
- Niger. Displaced by flooding
- Description
- View of the new Niamey 2021 neighbourhood, Cité Garantché. For forty days it has been housing the nearly 9700 flood victims of 2020 rains, the Nigerien government has gift them a plot of land. But everything is still to be built.
- According to estimates by the Nigerien Ministry of Humanitarian Action and Disaster Management, 281,407 households were affected by flooding due to heavy rains in July and August 2020 in Niger. The Kirkissouye neighborhood located near the Niger River in Niamey is one of the affected areas and in August 2020, approximately 9,700 people had to be evacuated. For eleven months these affected people were housed at the Gamou military site at three kilometers from the city, then they were relocated to a new site called Niamey 2021 Cité Garanché at five kilometers from the city of Niamey, the Nigerien government offered a plot of land to each of the 937 affected households. Settling and starting their lives again on this virgin land without electricity or running water is a great challenge for these new arrivals, but also a source of hope
- Creator
- Cherkaoui, Sylvain
- Identifier
- RF1173746
- Date Created
- October 9, 2021
- Format
- Photographs
- Extent
- 2808 x 5000
- 7MB
- Source
- UNHCR
- Spatial Coverage
- Niger
- Rights
-
- Rights Holder
- © UNHCR/Sylvain Cherkaoui
- Item sets
- Never in One Place
- Media
