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Climate crisis threatens to displace millions in Middle East

The World Bank estimates that by 2050, if nothing is done to prevent it, there will be 216 million people internally displaced by the climate crisis with the Middle East being one of the most vulnerable regions.

Renewed hope for children displaced by extreme environmental events

Led by the United Nations, a group of organisations have come up with a framework to help millions of boys and girls who have already been affected by climate change.

Multiple people dead, dozens missing after refugee boat capsizes off Libya

International Organization for Migration (IOM) says six bodies have been recovered and 29 others are still missing and presumed dead after a wooden sailboat overturned off the western Libya coast near Sabratha.

Thousands of migrants bound for Spain lost at sea in 2021

Over 4,400 migrants and asylum seekers have died or disappeared trying to reach Spain by sea in 2021, twice as many as in the previous year, a migrant rights group said.

Number of international migrants reaches 281 million: UN

The UN migration agency said that there would have been another two million international migrants had it not been for the Covid-19 pandemic.

Humanitarian situation 'deteriorating' in Yemen's Marib conflict zone

Over 45,000 people are fleeing their homes as Houthi forces push to usurp Marib, the city that has seen around 1 million people flee since late 2014.

Belarus sends back more migrants in bid to quell crisis at Poland border

A group of 118 migrants have left the country a day earlier and more will depart on Tuesday, according to Belarus's interior ministry.

Hunger and cold threaten Afghanistan as aid agencies begin helping out

"Winter is difficult, and we have nothing except God, and we need more help," says aid recipient Bibi Pashtoon during the distribution of relief to hundreds of displaced families in capital Kabul.

Italian vessel rescues dozens of migrants from a boat fleeing Libya

So far this year some 44,000 people have reached European shores by crossing the central Mediterranean from Tunisia and Libya, often at the hands of smugglers who put them on unseaworthy boats.

Dozens drown as migrant boat capsizes off Libya

At least 20 women and two children are among 57 people who drowned, says International Organization for Migration, citing survivors brought to shore by fishermen and coast guard.

Displaced Yemenis constantly on the move amid relentless fighting

Thousands of internally displaced people in Yemen have no option but to flee from one location to another in a country beset by violence since Houthi rebels overran much of it, including the capital Sanaa, in 2014.

Migrants transported by smugglers drown off Djibouti coast

The boat left Yemen with around 60 passengers, including many children, International Organization for Migration official in Djibouti says on second such accident in just over a month.