Malawi Neno Residents Wary of Mozambican Refugees
People from the area of Senior Chief Symon in Neno district have expressed wary over refugees that coming from Mozambique to a camp at Luwani. Village Headman Lembani told Malawi News Agency on Tuesday that the last group of that was accommodated at the camp some years back, terrorized the area with armed robberies and […]
Turkish couple feed 4,000 Syrian refugees on wedding day instead of wedding
Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat tied the knot in Kilis province on the Syrian border, which is currently home to thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in the neighbouring country. It’s traditional for Turkish weddings to last between Tuesday to Thursday, culminating in a banquet on the last night, but this couple decided they wanted a […]
UN Sounds Warning On Central African Republic Humanitarian Crisis
The Central African Republic is geared to become one of the largest humanitarian crises of our time if immediate action is not taken to increase aid to the country, according to the UN. Aurelien Agbenonci, from the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for CAR, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that if […]
Four million refugees have fled Syrian conflict – UN
More than four million Syrians – a sixth of the population – have fled abroad to escape the conflict in their country, the United Nations has said. A surge in the number of people crossing into Turkey has increased the total by one million in just 10 months. More than seven million others have been […]
White Nile State Witnesses Large Influx of South Sudanese Refugees
The Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) said that 3,000 South Sudanese families have recently arrived in Sudan’s White Nile state bringing the total number of refugees from the newborn country in the state 84,000 refugees. SRCS executive director in White Nile, Osama Osman, said that 3,197 families have arrived in the seven cantonment sites in […]
Situation in the Saharawi Refugee Camps – Spanish Documentary
Kafana is the title of the documentary of Silvia Venegas and Juan Antonio Moreno which saw the light recently and which aims to alert about the situation in the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria, the newspaper Público.es reported yesterday. The film stresses on the serious humanitarian situation, because of food shortage, in the second oldest […]
Truth About Eritrea’s ‘Economic Migrants’
The United Nations refugee agency has just announced that more people are on the move – driven from their homes by conflict and human rights abuses – than at any other time in history: 59.5 million to be precise. Yet governments all over the globe contend that most of these people, who risk their lives […]
Eritrean Man Walks 4 000km to SA for Education
After walking 4 000km from his home country of Eritrea to South Africa in pursuit of an education, Yibrah Ghebreyohannes finally realised his dream when he graduated with a Masters Degree in Geography at KwaZulu-Natal University recently. Ghebreyohannes, 33, who lives in Port Edward, told News24 it was South Africa’s democracy that inspired him to […]
U.S. Gives Temporary Protected Status To Illegal Somalis
The U.S. government extended a temporary protected status on Monday to Somali citizens living illegally in the United States which will allow them to remain in the states for 18 more months. The temporary protected status is a special immigration status that allows people living illegally in the states to work legally and shields them […]
Thousands Flee Violent Upsurge in Northern Mali
Bamako — A spike in violence in northern Mali has driven the number of people displaced in the country above 100,000, many of them urgently needing food, water and shelter as time runs out before the rainy season begins. The situation is worst in the northern Timbuktu region, where an estimated 23,000 people have been […]
