UNHCR launches $5.8 billion fundraising appeal for African refugees

UNHCR launches $5.8 billion fundraising appeal for African refugees

UNHCR launches $5.8 billion fundraising appeal for African refugees

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced it will raise $10 billion in 2025 to help millions of people around the world uprooted by war, persecution and natural disasters. About $5.8 billion of that amount will go to help refugees in Africa.

Thus, about $2.1 billion will go to help people in North Africa and the Middle East, the same amount will be allocated to East Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region, $1.2 billion to West and Central Africa and $451 million to South Africa.

“Of the 139.3 million targeted beneficiaries, 34 million (24%) are refugees, 68 million (48%) are internally displaced persons, 12 million are returnees, and approximately 4.5 million are stateless persons under the agency’s mandate.”

UNHCR’s key challenge for 2025 will be to translate these promises into action, supported by technical expertise and funding from the international community.

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