Sitting in the Library at Southampton University, you could be forgiven for thinking Mohammad Leily looks much like the other medical students he is with.
But his story is rather different. Mohammad is a Syrian refugee.
Category: International
Yemen: five days inside the world’s largest humanitarian crisis
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© Yahya Arhab/Yemen Red Crescent Society
A staggering 70 per cent of people in war-torn Yemen depend on humanitarian aid. Yet a blockade recently stopped the flow of emergency supplies into the country.
In this series of vlogs, Tre from the British Red Cross reflects on what life is like for Yemen’s people and what we are doing to help.
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100 years since Passchendaele – through the eyes of Red Cross ambulance drivers
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The Battle of Passchendaele has become synonymous with the horrors of World War One and human sacrifice.
The incessant bombardment and heavy rain turned the Belgian battlefield into a quagmire. Tanks became immobilised, while soldiers and horses drowned in the mud.
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Myanmar crisis: “Why are we here? We don’t know”
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On the steep hillsides near the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, a ramshackle collection of camps and settlements have sprung up.
Conditions here are extremely harsh – almost everyone is sheltering under plastic sheeting – with heavy rain and mud spreading sewage and washing homes away.
Over half a million people have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since August 2017, the majority of them women and young girls.
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How clean water is making better students in Zimbabwe
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Pupils from Mabhiza School in Zimbabwe – ©BritishRedCross
With peak hunger season approaching in Southern Africa, many rural communities are once again feeling the strain.
In rural Zimbabwe alone, it’s forecast that 1.1 million will be food insecure between January and March 2018.
But one community is bucking the trend, having reaped the rewards of a Red Cross community resilience project.
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After the storm: how the Red Cross is helping the British Virgin Islands
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The Caribbean is beginning to pick up the pieces after the recent hurricanes. David Dalgado, on the British Virgin Islands, explains what the Red Cross is doing to help.
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Fleeing Myanmar: portraits of lives overturned
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© photo by AF Ghani/IFRC
In a makeshift camp in Bangladesh, 25-year-old Shovika Mia holds her newborn daughter.
Shovika gave birth to baby Nur Halima in the hills while fleeing her home in Myanmar.
She and her husband, Shona, are among the more than 436,000 people who have fled a sudden increase in violence in Rakhine State.
Back home, the young couple had a house and four cows that provided a stable income.
But their house was burned in the violence. And as they fled, their cows were shot.
Now, they live in an informal camp for new arrivals to Bangladesh.
Shona, 27, has found work as a day labourer for around £2.70 a day. And although Shovika feels weak herself, her main worry is for her baby’s future.
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Widowed, homeless and hungry – the desperate plight of people fleeing Myanmar
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Rajuma Khatun fled Myanmar with her two children – ©IFRC/AJGhani
Life for people fleeing violence in Myanmar does not get any easier when they reach Bangladesh, as Corinne Ambler reports.
At the age of 25, Rajuma Khatun is a mother, a widow, and without a home. She is also exhausted.
The mother-of-two has barely eaten or slept since arriving in Bangladesh, having fled the violence in Myanmar.
It took her family seven days to travel from their home in Rakhine State to the relative safety of a settlement in Thangkhali, near the border.
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