Juliet Ibrahim will not back down in her aim to assist the victims of the flood that destroyed major parts…
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Utrecht, The Netherlands – When actor Bright O Richards came to Holland as a refugee of the Liberian civil war,…
At least 82 people have been killed and more than one hundred others are still missing after a boat, reportedly…
The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on European countries to come together to create a working strategy…
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 11, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM Somalia, in coordination with the Somali immigration department, has conducted…
8 July 2014 – One in four of all Syrian refugee families in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan are headed…
27 June 2014 – Thousands of people are fleeing new violence and reprisal attacks in and around the town of…
The County of Nice won the inaugural World Cup for stateless people, regions and other non-FIFA affiliated teams on Sunday in northern Sweden as members of one refugee team disappeared. The French county beat the Isle of Man in a tough final in Ostersund…
UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that the conflict in Central African Republic could embroil the whole region and threaten global security. “It’s not easy to put Central African Republic on the map of concerns of public opinion in…
Twenty-two Jordanian policemen and three Syrian refugees were hurt in clashes in a northern camp Saturday as police fired tear gas to disperse dozens of rioters, security officials said. Eyewitness said a Syrian refugee woman was killed in the rioting…
The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing war in their country has surpassed one million, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday. Refugees from Syria, half of them children, now equal a quarter of Lebanon’s resident population…
The UN’s refugee agency said Tuesday it was prepared to help evacuate some 19,000 Muslims at risk of attack from mainly Christian militias in the conflict-torn Central African Republic. “What we don’t want is to stand by and watch people being slaughtered…
Thousands of refugees are fleeing harrowing scenes of atrocities and body-strewn streets in northern Nigeria, the UN said Tuesday. The UN’s refugee agency said violence in the area had prompted some 2,000 people to flee into neighbouring Niger over…
Follow @{0}A pile of rifles after disarmament in eastern DRC. Weapons smuggling to Boko Haram is heightening insecurity in northern…
Thousands of people have fled across Nigeria’s borders with Cameroon and Niger amid renewed clashes between the Nigerian military and Boko Haram insurgents, the UN’s refugee agency said Friday. Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner…
Battles between rival ethnic groups spread across South Sudan on Friday as foreign governments scrambled to get their nationals away from reported slaughters and a refugee buildup. African ministers pushed President Salva Kiir to start talks with his…