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  • EU leaders ask Erdoğan to back radical refugee plan

    news The Guardian, 05 Oct 2015 (10 years ago )
    EU leaders have pleaded with Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to join forces behind a radical plan aimed at stemming the flow of hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants to Europe. The Europeans are offering eventually to take half a million Syrians from new refugee a...
  • Lack Of Funds Pushes Al-Shabaab Towards ISIL-Puntland

    news AMISOM Daily Media Monitoring, 27 Oct 2015 (10 years ago )
    Funding crises have pushed Somali terror group, Al Shabaab to shift balance towards the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Puntland Government in Northern Somalia claimed on Tuesday. The remarks come less than a week after key Al Shabaab ideologue Abdulkadir Mumin defected to Islamic State...
  • Food shortage forces hundreds of refugees back into Sudan

    news UNHCR, 20 May 2014 (11 years ago )
    DORO REFUGEE CAMP, South Sudan, May 20 (UNHCR) – Driven by hunger, hundreds of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan's Maban County have returned to Sudan's war-torn Blue Nile state in a desperate search for food. "The present food crisis is a product of the insecurity that has been hampering humanita...
  • Gambia: Barrow expected back on Thursday, economy top priority

    news Africanews, 25 Jan 2017 (9 years ago )
    Victor Muisyo with AGENCIES Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow says the country’s economy is his top priority when he returns to Banjul, as he promises a new cabinet and creation of new jobs in a road map to the country’s recovery. He is due to return to Gambia on Thursday, a senior aide told...
  • South Sudan, Juba: Back to business in Eastern Equatoria

    news UNHCR Juba South Sudan, 11 Feb 2022 (4 years ago )
    Friday 11 February 2022 – On Friday 11 February the Governor of Eastern Equatoria State, Honorable Gen. Louis Lobong Lojore, and UNHCR Representative in South Sudan, Arafat Jamal, officially inaugurated the UNHCR Torit Field Office joined by Ambassador Mohammed Affey, UNHCR Special Envoy for the Hor...
  • UN envoy visits Syrian refugees in Zahle, Jebb Jennine

    news National News Agency, 14 Nov 2013 (12 years ago )
    he United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Derek Plumbly, on Wednesday visited Zahle and Jebb Jennine in West Bekaa, to inspect the condition of the Syrian refugees and the hosting local communities.
  • UN refugee chief visits Nigerian refugees in northern Cameroon

    news Kora - Voices of Refugees in West and Central Africa, 25 Mar 2015 (11 years ago )
    High Commissioner Antonio Guterres will visit Minawao camp to hear the refugees' testimonies and see the conditions in the camp, which is home to 33,000 Nigerian refugees
  • Le pape François visite la grande mosquée de Bangui

    news France 24, 30 Nov 2015 (10 years ago )
    Le pape François s'est rendu lundi à la grande mosquée de Bangui, où il a réaffirmé que chrétiens et musulmans "sont frères" et qu'il fallait dire "non à la vengeance, à la violence et à la haine". En visite en Centrafrique dans le cadre de sa tournée africaine, le pape François s'est rendu lundi...
  • Visite of 4 Malian Ministers in Abala and Ayorou

    news UNHCR, 06 Aug 2012 (13 years ago )
    A Delegation of 4 Ministers from the Malian government came to Abala and Ayorou camps to meet with refugees and local authorities on august 4th and 5th.
  • UNECA Executive Secretary visits South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia

    news UNHCR, 12 Mar 2015 (11 years ago )
    Dr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), visited Tierkidi refugee camp in western Ethiopia, home to nearly 50,000 refugees who fled the ongoing war in South Sudan. He held focus group discussions with refugee representatives and toured some key camp amenitie...