Yemen’s Displaced Families Struggle To Survive
Wrapping their children in plastic sheets to stave off the winter cold, Yemeni families driven out of the historic port ...
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Aid Worries Rise For South Sudan Refugees Inside Sudan
As hundreds of South Sudanese fleeing famine and civil war enter Sudan each day, aid workers warn of a lack ...
Exhausted S.Sudanese Refugees Flock To Sudan Transit Camp
After enduring years of fighting and food shortages, it was the deaths from hunger of many old women and children ...
32,000 South Sudanese Already Entered Sudan In 2017
About 32,000 South Sudanese have entered Sudan since the start of the year, with tens of thousands more expected to ...
Refugees Make Up Bulk of Crossings From US To Canada
Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from ...
Bashir Orders Full Aid Access To S. Sudan Famine Areas
President Omar al-Bashir has ordered Sudanese authorities to assist the delivery of international humanitarian aid to famine-hit South Sudan through ...
World Donors Gather In Oslo To Tackle Nigeria Famine
UN aid agencies and donor countries gathered in Oslo Thursday for a two-day meeting to raise emergency aid for millions ...
Cameroon ‘expels’ Nigerians
Most of the refugees are at the Minawao camp in north-eastern Cameroon Cameroon has expelled 517 Nigerians, including 313 asylum ...
Syria Refugees Shrug Off Peace Talks But Dream of Home
Almost six years into a war that has devastated their country, Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon say they expect ...
US To Give Uganda $25 Mn In Aid For Refugees
The United States will give over $25 million in humanitarian aid to Uganda, to help the nation cope with a ...
Rights Group Raps Pakistan For ‘forced’ Repatriation of Afghans
Pakistan is conducting the mass repatriation of Afghan refugees through coercion, threats and abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a ...
Heartbroken UN Chief Seeks Yemen Talks ‘resurrection’
A heartbroken United Nations chief on Sunday called for the "resurrection" of peace talks between Yemen's warring sides to end ...
Burundians March To Dispute UNHCR Figures
Hundreds of Burundians took to the streets on Saturday to protest against a UN report Hundreds of Burundians took to ...
Angelina Jolie Slams Trump Travel Ban, Calls For ‘compassionate America’
Actress and human rights advocate Angelina Jolie on Thursday said U. S. President Donald Trump's executive order barring travellers from ...
US-Australia Refugee Deal: Trump In ‘worst Call’ With Turnbull
A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has called into question a refugee resettlement ...
U.N. Agencies Urge Trump To Allow Refugees Entry
he United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration on Saturday to continue ...
26,000 Tourists Flee Gambia Over Political Crisis
Thousands of tourists have left Gambia, following the declaration of a state of emergency in the country. Jammeh’s tenure which ...
26,000 Tourists Flee Gambia Over Political Crisis
Thousands of tourists have left Gambia, following the declaration of a state of emergency in the country. Jammeh’s tenure which ...
180 Missing People Presumed Dead After Shipwreck
Four people are dead and nearly 180 are missing, presumed dead, after a ship capsized in the Mediterranean on Saturday, ...
Gambians Flee Ahead of Barrow ‘inauguration’
A worker at The Gambia’s main ferry crossing has told the BBC that thousands of people are fleeing every day ...