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I’ll Keep Working With UNHCR To Support Displaced Persons Across The Globe – Camavinga

David Folami — Wed, 17 May 2023 15:49:13 +0000

Real Madrid star, Eduardo Camavinga has come out to express his gratitude to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Recall that the young midfielder was born in a refugee camp in Angola and has gone on to star for the France national team and Real Madrid. According to him, everytime he is given the [...]

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Blinken, Ukraine FM Kuleba Discuss Return Of US Diplomats, Aid Package

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sun, 01 May 2022 16:00:25 +0000

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday discussed the return of American diplomats to Ukraine as well as an aid of USD 33 billion to the war-torn country with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba. “Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to follow up on their April [...]

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Hon. Dogara Urges Presidency To Increase Funding For IDPs In 2016

Wale Adebayo — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:56:05 +0000

The Speaker of the House Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has urged the Presidency to make adequate budgetary provision in 2016 for the resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country. The Speaker made the call in his remarks at the sensitization workshop on the role of the parliament in addressing the challenges of IDPs [...]

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Refugee Border Controls by Balkan Countries putting Lives at risk

AMA — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:52:39 +0000

New border control measures imposed by some Balkan countries risk people’s lives by leaving hundreds stranded outside amid plunging winter temperatures, aid agencies have warned. Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia are now profiling refugees according to their nationality, allowing passage to those fleeing Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, while turning back those from Africa and Asia. [...]

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Nigeria’s Boko Haram Has Displaced More than 2million People – UNHCR

Wale Adebayo — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:51:17 +0000

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), on Thursday, said that the population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North East had risen to 2.2 million. Speaking in Abuja during the UNHCR 2015 stakeholders’ briefing of the commission’s representation in Nigeria, the UNHCR Representative to Nigeria, Ms Angele Dikongue-Atangana gave the statistics, but [...]

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Anti-Balaka Militia releases 163 child soldiers from ranks in Central African Republic

AMA — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 11:37:47 +0000

The anti-Balaka militia has released 163 children from its ranks in the Central African Republic (CAR), a country where as many as 10,000 youth have been recruited to fight for armed groups since 2013. The children were handed over at a ceremony on Friday in the northern town of Batangafo that was facilitated by the [...]

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At least 200 feared dead in Libya refugee boat disaster – Al Jazeera

AMA — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:05:16 +0000

At least 82 people have been killed and more than one hundred others are still missing after a boat, reportedly packed with people from Africa and South Asia bound for Italy, capsized and sunk off the Libyan coast. The Libyan Red Crescent said on Friday it had recovered 82 bodies. Nearly 200 had been rescued, [...]

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UN calls on Europe to create Refugee Strategy

AMA — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 01:53:20 +0000

The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on European countries to come together to create a working strategy to deal with the massive influx of refugees making their way to Europe. The agency said that all European countries and the EU must act together to provide support to countries such as Greece, Macedonia [...]

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