Humanitarian agencies at the United Nations, UN climate summit in Madrid say refugee camps in Africa and Asia are increasingly being damaged by extreme weather.
They say this has meaningfully added to the challenges they face in operations around the world, as already displaced people have in some cases been forced to move again.
Scientists warn that flooding and violent storms will become the new normal if the planet continues to warm at the current rate, adding to the hardship of those already displaced by conflict.
According to UNHCR officials, when tropical cyclone Idai hit South East Africa, killing more than 1,000 people in March this year, a refugee camp in Zimbabwe was affected too. They said many were injured in the Tongogara refugee camp that hosts some 13 thousand refugees in Chipinge district.
It added that around two thousand refugee houses, mainly built using mud bricks, were completely or partially damaged.
