It is a decision made in urgency, out of desperation, they have to abandon their homes, their families. That is something that is not affected by the seasons, there has to be a means to manage this situation.

Adrian Edwards

Categorized in : World

At present, we're seeing situations where children and teenagers are being detained in some cases in detention centers, it's really crucial that the authorities in these countries do have the necessary resources and means to provide viable alternatives to these children.

Large-scale violence and persecution at the hands of armed criminal actors have now become, along with poverty and unemployment, the primary driver of refugee and migrants flows from the Northern Triangle.

We're particularly concerned about the rising numbers of unaccompanied children and women on the run who face recruitment into criminal gangs, sexual and gender-based violence and murder.

That makes it the highest total for any month to date and roughly the same as the entire total for 2014.

The UNHCR is making final preparations for a huge airlift of humanitarian aid into Yemen's Sanaa, to take place over the next days if today's proposed ceasefire comes into effect and holds.

We are still getting information about how many people affected, we know that thousands of refugees were there, the reports that we've received, the town was attacked by about 30 militants using boats, they attacked parts of the town itself, the 'chef de canton' himself was killed. We were in contact with a refugee during the attack but the phone line went dead. We are still trying to find out more about the situation there.

With the violence that's plagued northeast Nigeria spilling over into Niger, Cameroon and Chad, UNHCR is now calling for urgent humanitarian access to refugees and internally displaced people in these countries to provide urgently needed assistance, for many refugees, for locals, for aid workers too, the situation is now becoming increasingly terrifying.