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German’s far-Right party wins big vote with call to stop flow of refugees

German’s far-Right party wins big vote with call to stop flow of refugees

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party was humiliated in key regional elections on Sunday as voters delivered their verdict at the ballot box about her open-door refugee policies. Exit poll results in three out of 16 German states foretell a wipeout in next year’s general election as the hard-right capitalized on public disquiet and […]

Violence Hits Central African Republic Ahead of Pope Francis’ Visit

Violence Hits Central African Republic Ahead of Pope Francis’ Visit

Around a dozen people died in clashes mostly between Muslim rebels and Christian groups in the Central African Republic in the past few days, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said two weeks ahead of a visit to the country by Pope Francis. Eight people were killed in attacks on two refugee camps while a […]

Belgium Donates 1.5 Million Euros for Burundian Refugees in Rwanda

Belgium Donates 1.5 Million Euros for Burundian Refugees in Rwanda

The embassy of Belgium in Rwanda has announced a donation of 1.5m Euros (Rwf1.212 billion) for Burundian refugees in the country. Part of the funds (€1m) will be channeled to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) while the rest will go to the World Food Programme (WFP). Arnout Pauwels, the Belgium ambassador to […]

Bad Weather – UN Launches Urgent Appeal for Relief Aid to Saharawi Refugees

Bad Weather – UN Launches Urgent Appeal for Relief Aid to Saharawi Refugees

United Nations office in Algeria on Thursday urged the international community to take the appropriate actions to meet the urgent needs of Saharawi refugees, hit by the bad weather that ravaged recently the five refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria’s south-west). “Following the heavy rain in the country’s southwest that caused huge damage in the five […]

Egyptian Billionaire who wants to purchase private islands to house refugees, has identified potential locations

Egyptian Billionaire who wants to purchase private islands to house refugees, has identified potential locations

An Egyptian billionaire, who has been offering to buy a Mediterranean island to provide refugees with decent living conditions, has identified potential locations and is now in talks to purchase two private Greek islands. Egyptian TV tycoon Naguib Sawiris, whose fortune is worth an estimated $3 billion, has “identified two privately owned Greek islands that […]

Europe Must Deal With the Blowback From Syria

Europe Must Deal With the Blowback From Syria

Over the past month, nothing has captured the global media’s attention so much as the migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee crisis in Europe. Broadcasts show the desperate trips across the Mediterranean by, primarily, Eritreans seeking to get to Europe. The payments, about $2,000 each. The overcrowding of the rickety boats. The inevitable deaths, by suffocation or […]

As Numbers Grow, Lone Child Migrants Find Sanctuary At UK Centre

As Numbers Grow, Lone Child Migrants Find Sanctuary At UK Centre

When 16-year-old Alem fled his home country, Eritrea, in February of this year he never imagined he would be heading for a new life in Britain. “My first goal was to get to Sudan. I had no idea where I would end up, but then somebody told me I should head for the UK,” he […]

Refugees have to be dealt with as human beings, stresses senior UN official

Refugees have to be dealt with as human beings, stresses senior UN official

Refugees have to be dealt with as human beings, and the broader migrant community, including economic migrants, cannot be dismissed “with a wave of the hand,” the top United Nations official dealing with migration said today. “I’d like to start by making a fundamental point which I think has been overlooked in quite a lot […]

Mauritanian-Sahrawi Solidarity Parliamentary Group Delegation On Visit to Saharawi Refugee Camps

Mauritanian-Sahrawi Solidarity Parliamentary Group Delegation On Visit to Saharawi Refugee Camps

A delegation consisting of members of Mauritanian-Sahrawi Solidarity Parliamentary Group arrived Monday in the Saharawi refugee camps. The delegation which includes members of various Mauritanian political parties, is headed by the Chairman of the Foreign and Defense Committee at the National Assembly of Mauritania, Mr. Habib Ould Adah, who is accompanied by the Secretary General […]

Jordan has a population of 6 million, but have taken in 1.5 million refugees. All with no protest

Jordan has a population of 6 million, but have taken in 1.5 million refugees. All with no protest

Jordan takes in far more refugees than Germany, but there are no protests. Anyone who wants to learn the meaning of charity and human kindness should take a look at the way refugees are treated there. It was the second day in our new home in Amman: I turned on the kitchen tap, there was […]

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