DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ivory Coast will ratify an international treaty on statelessness next week, a step that will make it easier for hundreds of thousands of Ivorian children now living in limbo to get access to education, healthcare and jobs, the U.N. refugee agency said. Preside...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 23 September 2014, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. More than 138,000 refugees, mainly Kurds, fleeing ISIS threats to towns and villages in the northern...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is to ask the country's national assembly to extend a state of emergency in three northeastern states hit by fighters when it expires this week, the justice minister has said. Jonathan ordered troops into Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in May last year. Several ...

BANGUI, 4 août 2014 – L’Agence des Nations Unies pour les Réfugiés étend ses activités en République centrafricaine, dans les domaines de la surveillance des frontières, de la cohésion sociale, du monitoring de protection et de la lutte contre les violences sexuelles et sexistes. Alors que 399 530 r...