NAIROBI – Nearly 9 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), 4.7 million refugees and asylum-seekers, and hundreds of thousands of migrants in East and Horn of Africa are suffering some of the worst impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from IOM, the International Organization for Migration, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
Refugees and migration
Health emergencies
South Sudan