Today is, unfortunately, a World Refugee Day like no other. Never before in the history of the world have so many been on the run, more than 65 million people, most of them displaced from their homes due to conflict or other threats to their welfare.
Leading humanitarian groups warn that the cholera outbreak gripping Yemen threatens to spread across the country, which is already struggling with famine and conflict.
The one-year-old deal between the European Union and Turkey to prevent migrants and refugees from reaching Greece is having a “devastating human consequence,” according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
An airstrike intended to hit Boko Haram militants struck a camp for people displaced by fighting in the region, military officials told the media. More than 100 people are feared dead, one local official told the Associated Press.
The number of people who died trying to cross the Mediterranean this year already surpassed the total for 2015. And there are still two months left in 2016.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer offered to give Doctors Without Borders free pneumonia vaccines. They would provide protection against one of the leading child killers. The medical charity turned them away.
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