Learn about UNHCR’s work in the East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region, including refugee and displacement data, programme plans, funding needs and our impact.

Contrary to the widespread belief that pre-colonial Africa was entirely without borders, African kingdoms including the Kingdom of Rwanda had clearly defined territorial boundaries. Rwanda, in ...

The former Governor of eastern DR Congo’s South Kivu Province, Marcelin Cishambo, has joined the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC/M23), according to rebel spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka. ALSO READ: AFC/M23 ...