The town of Sadriddin in Khuroson District, located about an hour and a half east of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, was severely damaged by floods and landslides in mid-May. Aminova Zarina from the Tajikistan office reports on AAR Japan's relief efforts.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (referred to as Congo below) in central Africa has been unstable since the 1990s, but tensions have further escalated in the wake of the presidential elections at the end of 2018 and armed clashes in the eastern region in 2019 have resulted in the deaths of scores of civilians. The number of refugees fleeing to neighboring Uganda has also skyrocketed, with approximately 410,000 Congolese refugees currently residing in...