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Southern Africa

Displaced and host community girls play football in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique as part of the World Refugee Day celebrations.
Displaced and host community girls play football in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique as part of the World Refugee Day celebrations. © UNHCR/Martim Gray Pereira  

Global Appeal 2023 | Regional summary

Southern Africa
22 November 2022
Emmanuelle walks her children three kilometres to school in Bulé town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They fled their home from when armed men attacked. Emmanuelle says her children are hungry and feel humiliated having to go to school barefoot.

Southern Africa includes eight of the least developed countries and has long been prey to economic instability, conflict and food insecurity. Most of those displaced in the region fled violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the needs for protection and basic services are expected to increase in 2023. Needs will also increase in Mozambique, where the number of displaced is nearing 1 million people.

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Global report 2021 | Regional summary

Southern Africa
16 June 2022
Man siting on a heal gazing at the river

The number of forcibly displaced and stateless people in Southern Africa remained above 8.4 million, a result of conflict and internal displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Mozambique, political violence in the Central African Republic resulting in refugee movements into Southern Africa, and the eruption of Mount Nyirag

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Latest updates

Southern Africa Funding Update - 2023
Southern Africa Funding Update - 2023
28-Mar-23
published 3 days ago
Southern Africa factsheet
January 2023
published 3 weeks ago
Southern Africa Operational Update
January 2023
published 3 weeks ago
Southern Africa Funding Update - 2022
Southern Africa Funding Update - 2022
28-Feb-23
published 1 month ago
Southern Africa factsheet
August 2022
published 6 months ago
Southern Africa operational update
May - June 2022
published 7 months ago
Southern Africa operational update
April 2022
published 9 months ago
Southern Africa operational update
March 2022
published 10 months ago
Southern Africa operational update
February 2022
published 11 months ago

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