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IDP Refugees Return From Cameroon

David Folami — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:00:39 +0000

The Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says 30,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who fled the state at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency have returned home. Malam Abdullahi Umar, the Spokesman of the agency, said in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Wednesday that the figure was part of the 78,000 IDPs that [...]

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FG Plan Return Of 80,000 Nigerian Refugees In Cameroon

David Folami — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:16:47 +0000

The Nigerian government has signed a tripartite agreement for the return of 80,000 Nigerians displaced to Cameroon by the Boko Haram insurgency. According to reports, the Federal Government signed the agreement with the United Nations High Commission for Refugee, UNHCR, and the Republic of Cameroon for the return of the refugees who fled for safety. [...]

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Burundi Refugees: A Life of Displacement and Despair

AMA — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:40:23 +0000

Kasulu, Tanzania – At the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp on Tanzania’s western border, a young man stands apart from the crowd of people pushing against the bent gate, clamouring for their monthly ration of two bars of soap and a mosquito net. Abdul Karim is one of more than 110,000 Burundian refugees who have fled to [...]

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European Union Set To Use Warships To Curb Human Traffickers

AMA — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:51:41 +0000

The European Union (EU) will use warships to catch and arrest human traffickers in international waters as part of a military operation aimed at curbing the flow of refugees into Europe, the bloc’s foreign affairs chief has said. “The political decision has been taken, the assets are ready,” Federica Mogherini said on Thursday at the [...]

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#Charity: New thinking needed on food aid for refugees in Africa

ARIN News — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 02:20:12 +0000

Women at Doro refugee camp in South sudan collect their monthly food rations JOHANNESBURG, 7 July 2014 (IRIN) – The World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched an urgent appeal to address a funding shortfall that has already resulted in food ration cuts for a third of all African refugees. [...]

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European Union wants to standardise health screening for migrants

Adewale Ade — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:25:07 +0000

The European Union said Tuesday it would promote common guidelines across the bloc for the health screening of incoming migrants and refugees. "My intention is to set up a working group... to create guidelines on what (diseases) to screen for, when…

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251 Congolese perish in Lake Albert boat disaster: DRC

Adewale Ade — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:05:16 +0000

More than 251 Congolese refugees perished in the weekend sinking of a crowded boat on Lake Albert, between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, Kinshasa said Thursday. Government spokesman Lambert Mende also declared three days of national mourning…

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No More Refugees Camp In Nigeria – Commissioner

David Folami — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:29:27 +0000

The Federal Government said there was no more refugees camp in Nigeria, attributing the development to the fact that there was no more war in Liberia or Sierra Leone. . Mrs Hadiza Sani-Kangiwa, the Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of National Commission for Refugees, . Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), announced this in Lagos [...]

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6,000 Nigerians Flee Into Neighbouring Countries Because Of BokoHaram– UN

David Folami — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:10:45 +0000

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says nearly 6,000 people have fled the northern parts of Nigeria due to the activities of Boko Haram to neighbouring Cameroon and Niger in the past 10 days. . UNHCR in its reports made available at the UN Headquarters in New York on Friday, reported that several people had been [...]

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UN says 935,000 flee conflict in Central Africa

Ade Adewale — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:15:38 +0000

The number of people uprooted by conflict in the Central African Republic is nearing one million, with half of the residents of the capital Bangui driven from their homes, the United Nations said on Friday. "The humanitarian situation in the Central…

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Nigerian overnight refugees worry Cameroon

ARIN News — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:02:09 +0000

MINAWAO CAMP, 24 December 2013 (IRIN) – Only around 1,800 of the thousands of Nigerians forced to find refuge from the fighting in the northeast between the jihadist Boko Haram and the Nigerian military have settled in a camp in neighbouring Cameroon. Others are living with relatives in villages along the border, complicating their identification [...]

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Syrian boat refugees rescued from choppy seas in Italy

Adewale Ade — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:37:07 +0000

Italian coastguards on Monday rescued around 120 mostly Syrian refugees from a packed fishing boat adrift off the coast of southern Italy in gale-force conditions. Coastguards exploited a brief lull in the weather to rescue the migrants, including some…

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Former Angolan refugees return home from Botswana after more than 20 years in exile

Adewale Ade — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 07:02:00 +0000

GABORONE, Botswana, October 14, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Some 178 Angolans who had been living as refugees in Botswana, some for more than two decades, returned home over the past weekend with the assistance of UNHCR and the Governments of Botswana and Angola. The Government of Botswana invoked the cessation of refugee status for [...]

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