Nearly 90 million forcibly displaced people, or three-quarters of the global total, live in countries highly exposed to climate hazards, the UN refugee agency said on Friday, urging action ahead of the COP31 climate summit in Turkey. It said droughts, floods and extreme heat were making lasting solutions harder to find.
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In tonight's edition, a Nigerian court disqualifies a leading presidential candidate, adding fresh complications for the electoral process two months before the election. Also, tens of thousands have fled across the border into Kenya as deadly ethnic clashes in southern Ethiopia intensify. And having fled conflict and violence, members of the first Refugee Youth Olympic Team are chasing Olympic dreams at Dakar 2026.
More than five years after the military coup, the junta launched a new offensive in September to retake Rakhine State, intensifying airstrikes against civilians and employing double-tap strikes