Former Angolan refugees return home from Botswana after more than 20 years in...
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...
View ArticleSyrian boat refugees rescued from choppy seas in Italy
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...
View ArticleNigerian overnight refugees worry Cameroon
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...
View ArticleUN says 935,000 flee conflict in Central Africa
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...
View Article6,000 Nigerians Flee Into Neighbouring Countries Because Of BokoHaram– UN
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...
View ArticleNo More Refugees Camp In Nigeria – Commissioner
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...
View Article251 Congolese perish in Lake Albert boat disaster: DRC
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...
View ArticleEuropean Union wants to standardise health screening for migrants
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...
View Article#Charity: New thinking needed on food aid for refugees in Africa
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...
View ArticleEuropean Union Set To Use Warships To Curb Human Traffickers
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...
View ArticleBurundi Refugees: A Life of Displacement and Despair
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...
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FG Plan Return Of 80,000 Nigerian Refugees In Cameroon
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...
View ArticleIDP Refugees Return From Cameroon
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,...
View ArticleFormer Angolan refugees return home from Botswana after more than 20 years in...
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...
View ArticleSyrian boat refugees rescued from choppy seas in Italy
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...
View ArticleNigerian overnight refugees worry Cameroon
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...
View ArticleUN says 935,000 flee conflict in Central Africa
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...
View Article6,000 Nigerians Flee Into Neighbouring Countries Because Of BokoHaram– UN
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...
View ArticleNo More Refugees Camp In Nigeria – Commissioner
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...
View Article251 Congolese perish in Lake Albert boat disaster: DRC
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...
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