NRC East and Southern Africa

12/06/2026

: Families fleeing Sudan's war are arriving in South Sudan with no food, no shelter, and in many cases, no news of the relatives they left behind.

In Aweil East, we are registering thousands of returnees and refugees and providing shelter, water, and essential items. But the needs are enormous and the world is not watching closely enough.

Their stories are not easy to read. But they need to be told.

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11/06/2026

Our teams in have reached 900+ displaced families in Mueda and Nangade with shelter assistance through the support.

Families receive digital vouchers to buy the shelter materials they need, backed by technical support to improve fragile houses.

5,500+ families will be supported this year.

04/06/2026

"This is absolutely horrific." Speaking to Al Jazeera Channel - قناة الجزيرة, our colleague Elias Abu Ata laid bare the compounding tragedies facing millions of displaced people across Sudan.

As a relentless surge in drone strikes claims hundreds of civilian lives, the looming rainy season threatens to trigger severe disease outbreaks. Yet, a severe lack of safe humanitarian access means aid workers cannot consistently reach the hardest-hit areas in Darfur, Kordofan, and beyond.

The human cost of this inaction is staggering. Our recent assessment data reveals:

Over 80% of displaced and refugee families surveyed are forcing themselves to skip meals every day, some going days without food or resorting to eating tree leaves.

Only 15% of respondents feel their current living conditions allow them to live with dignity.

A crisis of this scale demands more than statements. The international community must exert urgent pressure to secure immediate, safe humanitarian access and fully fund the response before the rains completely cut off vulnerable communities.

04/06/2026

Sudan tops NRC's 2025 Neglected Displacement Crises Report. More than 9 million people internally displaced, up to 4 million who have fled to neighbouring countries, and nearly 19.5 million facing hunger, yet just as needs skyrocketed last year, funding was cut.

This is not a crisis the world doesn't know about. It is a crisis the world has chosen not to adequately respond to.

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03/06/2026

: One kilometre from a river and still no clean water. Families at the Sabalaley displacement site in Ethiopia were drinking unsafe water for years, excluded from a treated water system right on their doorstep.

"We used to collect water from the river even when we knew it was unsafe, because we had no alternative. Now, clean water is available near our homes, and we feel safer, especially for our children," said a resident of the Sabalaley displacement site.

With support from the Ethiopia Humanitarian Fund, we extended the pipeline into Sabalaley. Today, clean water reaches their homes.

02/06/2026

Families who have survived the unimaginable are arriving in Aweil East County, and we are here to meet them.

We are registering displaced families across Madol, Yarguak, Mangarthon, Wunlang, and Baath, providing Emergency shelter support, Cash assistance to help rebuild homes, Menstrual hygiene support for women and girls.

We are reaching up to 59,000 people in total, but the needs continue to grow as more families cross the border every day.

Thanks to OCHA Funds, United Nations OCHA South Sudan, .

29/05/2026

A conflict thousands of miles away is making it harder for families in to eat.

The crisis in the Middle East has driven up the cost of fuel. When fuel prices rise, the cost of transporting food rises too. Markets become more expensive. Families already living on little are pushed further into hunger.

1 in 4 Somalis are facing a hunger crisis today.

This is how crises connect. What happens in one part of the world does not stay there.

Somalia is already one of the most fragile places on earth. Decades of conflict, climate shocks, and displacement have left millions of people with almost nothing to fall back on. Rising fuel costs are the latest blow.

Read the full story to understand what is really driving hunger in Somalia and what needs to change.

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What is happening in the Middle East may feel far away, but for many Somali families, its impact is close and deeply disruptive.

28/05/2026

Nyanut spent 54 years building a life in . Then the war took everything. Her son was killed. Her daughter-in-law vanished. And when she finally reached Mabil East, with her three grandchildren, she had no idea where her ancestral home village even was.

For many returnees like Nyanut, the journey does not end at the border. Displacement, loss, and disorientation continue.

We are working to provide shelter, food, and vital support to families arriving in Mabil East.

Thanks to United Nations OCHA South Sudan, OCHA Funds for the support.

28/05/2026

This Eid, local markets are helping to drive community livelihoods forward in Galkacyo in .

Thanks to the support of Embassy of Sweden in Nairobi fresh produce grown through local perma gardens and farms were showcased at the Trade Expo, highlighting the richness of local production and the power of community market connections.

Bringing together more than 100 participants of traders, cooperatives, women’s groups, and community members, the event helped generate much needed additional income for households to buy food and essentials ahead of Eid.

26/05/2026

: She leaves at 6:00 AM. She returns at 9:00 AM. Two jerrycans. Not enough.

In Eligolo village, Ethiopia, women walk up to 13 kilometres for water every day, for nine months of the year. The two jerrycans Ergo carries home aren't enough for washing, for her children, for anything beyond survival. Her neighbour Abahina has lived this her whole life. So did her children. So do her grandchildren now.

When there is no water, the school closes. The health centre shuts. Life stops.

We stepped in to provide truck clean water directly to families in Eligolo so that Ergo, Abahina, and their community didn't have to go another day without.