A delegation of four MEPs will go to Jordan on 11-14 February to meet refugees who have fled the conflict in Syria and to see at first hand the conditions on the ground. The MEPs will also talk to local authorities and international organisations working in the field. The aim is to assess the refuge...

Michael Olugbode A bomb attack on Biu main market has claimed five lives and injured 10 others, eyewitnesses have said. One of the eyewitnesses, Yusuf Gunda, a member of the youth vigilante group in the town, which is in the southern part of Borno state, told our correspondent on phone that a ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the actions of the past days by several European countries to collectively end a standoff on the Mediterranean involving some 450 refugees and migrants who had been stranded at sea amid a battle over disembarkation. Since Saturday the governments of France, ...