Created in 2003, this organization utilizes a fleet of 75 aircraft and helicopters chartered from commercial air operators to deliver humanitarian assistance to areas of crisis and intervention.
What is the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS)?
Known as the "city of seven hills", this capital city hosts a PRM ref coord and is situated just north of Lake Victoria.
What is Kampala, Uganda?
A person who has fled their country of origin due to persecution and is seeking safety in another country.
What is a refugee?
On August 14, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared this disease as an epidemic. It has seen 40,874 cases and 1512 deaths have been reported across 15 African Union member states. In 2024 alone, 17,541 cases and 517 deaths have been reported from 13 AU member states.
What is the MPox epidemic?
Stretching 4,160 miles, this is the largest river in Africa.
What is the Nile River?
Named after an Assistant Secretary of State for PRM, this PRM program established a fund to support the efforts of U.S. diplomatic missions to provide short-term assistance and humanitarian protection for refugees.
What is the Julia V. Taft Fund?
Abuja Nigeria
Any person who meets the criteria for refugee status under Article 1A of the 1951 Convention together with relevant provisions of the 1967 Protocol, and is entitled to enjoyment of a range of rights under that Convention.
Convention Refugee
This is the main country of asylum in West Africa, hosting an estimated 700,000 forcibly displaced people and is at the heart of a turbulent region where violent extremism has been on the rise since 2012 due to the increasing presence of non-state regional-based armed groups and cross-border incursions.
What is Niger?
The first recorded European sighting of this southernmost point in Africa was in 1488 by the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Originally a logistics agency that transported almost one million migrants in the 1950s, PRM partners with this international organization.
IOM
Lying on the Apies River, this city is host a PRM Ref Coord and is home to the tree, a type of tree that have purple flowers.
What is Pretoria, South Africa?
The condition of not being considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law.
What is Statelessness?
This armed conflict in the Horn of Africa lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022 and resulted in 870,000 refugees.
What is the Tigray War?
Situated on the border of Kenya and Tanzania, this is the highest mountain in Africa at 19,340 feet.
What is Kilimanjaro?
Established in 1950 to help Europeans who lost their homes during World War II, this multilateral organization partners with PRM.
This sprawling city in East Africa is the fourth largest on the continent with about 5.4 million people and hosts a PRM Ref Coord.
Where is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia?
The involuntary or forced movement, evacuation or relocation of persons or groups of persons within internationally recognized State borders.
What is Internal Displacement?
As of 5 July 2024, over 7.7 million were internally displaced and more than 2.1 million others fled the country as refugees in this civil war.
What is the Sudanese Civil War?
This African Country has three capital cities. Name them.
What is South Africa?
What are Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein?
PRM has a partnership mandate with this international organization has won the Nobel Peace Prize three times, in 1917, 1944, and 1963.
PRM hosts a Ref Coord in this city, located midway between the mouths of the Gambia and Senegal rivers on the southeastern side of the Cape Verde Peninsula.
What is Dakar, Senegal?
The determination, by UNHCR or a State, of whether an individual should be admitted to refugee status determination procedures.
What is Admissibility?
With more than 6.2 million people displaced within this country and more than 1 million people having sought asylum within Africa. At the same time, this country hosts more than half a million refugees from neighboring countries.
What is the Democratic Republic of Congo?
The only country in Africa with Spanish as an official language, it lies mostly between 1& 2 degrees North Latitude.
Equatorial Guinea