refugees

EDITORIAL | Outgoing President Mohamed Farmaajo was preventing for his face this week when one thing else affecting Somalis occurred: neighboring Kenya threatened to shut the Dadaab refugee camp. House to greater than 174,000 Somalis, this momentary shelter has been in existence for 30 years. And it has grow to be a scapegoat for Kenya's safety issues, particularly within the struggle towards al-Shabaab. After intense negotiations with the UN refugee company, Kenya agreed to postpone the closure till subsequent 12…

Two refugee camps in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia, Shimelba and Hitsats, were completely destroyed a few months ago. These two camps accommodated almost 20,000 people. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) claims to have been able to rejoin 12,000 of these refugees, but the UN agency is now worried about the fate of some 8,000 other refugees. These 8,000 other refugees from these two camps in the northern part of the Tigray region have "disappeared" and for some have been "deported" to Eritrea, as…

The head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi arrived in the country on Tuesday, April 20. On Wednesday, it went to an area cut off from the world, in northern Congo-Kinshasa, where almost 100,000 people who fled violence in the Central African Republic have sought refuge since December last year. On the ground, living conditions are difficult while the UNHCR sees…

After criticism, Biden says he wants to raise the U.S. ceiling on footage of refugees U.S. President Joe Biden said Saturday he will raise the ceiling for the number of refugees admitted to the United States this year, a day after he criticized Democratic lawmakers for agreeing to keep the historically low figure in place. Biden signed an order on Friday to extend a ceiling of 15,000…

Every year, thousands of migrants make dangerous boat trips to war-torn Yemen, many with the aim of traveling overland to the Gulf countries in search of work. But recently, many migrants have called for it to stop, forcing a protracted and often dangerous flow out of the Horn of Africa at sea and then north through Yemen to the Gulf states for work. Their hopes for a better future have been thwarted by coronavirus restrictions and security conditions, leaving them in a country where millions are…

In Sudan, in less than ten days and according to a report by the UN refugee agency, inter-municipal clashes have left 144 victims and more than 200 injured in El-Geneina in the Darfur region. The flight for almost 2000 refugees in nearby Chad. .

Tribal violence in Sudan's western Darfur region has displaced more than 1,800 people who have fled across the border into the nearby Central African nation of Chad in the past week, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said. The majority of refugees are women, children and senior citizens who have fled villages near the border since the violence broke out on April 3, said Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Some refugees have been…

For the first time since the conflict began in Tigrayan last November, a team from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was able to visit the Eritrean refugee camps in the northern Ethiopian region. The UN agency confirms that two of these camps, Shimelba and Hitsats, have been completely destroyed. The 20,000 passengers in the two camps were scattered throughout Ethiopia. The UNHCR must therefore find an urgent solution for thousands of refugees, as Boris Cheshirkov, its spokesman for East Africa, explains. What…

Kenya is calling for the closure of two large refugee camps on its territory. There are more than 500,000 refugees in the Dadaab and Kakuma sites, mainly Somalis for the first and South Sudanese for the second. Nairobi cites security reasons. A message that worries but whose application promises to be extremely complex. The Minister of the Interior gave humanitarian workers 14 days to establish a timetable for closure. Fred Matiangi said there was "no more room for negotiation" and that the government had "an obligation…

Pr. On 31 January 2021, Burkina Faso will host 19,823 Malian refugees. Following the terrorist attacks and the insecurity that began to settle around and in the Mentao refugee camps, in Soum and Goudebo provinces, in Seno, the government and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have decided to make the camps safer. With our…