UNHCR signed a Letter of Understanding with the Izmir Governorate aims to launch and operationalize a Textile Machinery Operator Training and Harmonization Centre.

UNHCR signed a Letter of Understanding with the Izmir Governorate aims to launch and operationalize a Textile Machinery Operator Training and Harmonization Centre.

Cabinet approval of the 6th extension of the grace period for Syrian refugees’ work permits until June 30th 2018. A circular has been made by the Ministry of Labour regarding this approval.

By the end of 2017, UNHCR and partners received only 34 per cent of funds required to meet the needs of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda.

Over 3,700 new refugee arrivals fled to Sudan in December 2017 through South Darfur, South and West Kordofan and White Nile states.

Revised decreased of refugee figures for North Darfur, South and West Kordofan following completion of individual (biometric) registration.

According to WHO, the lack of laboratory services remains an ongoing gap for the refugee health response across Sudan.

Uganda received 354,456 new refugees arrivals from South Sudan in 2017

A total of 46,717 work permits have been issued/renewed during the period of January 1, 2017-Dec 31, 2017.

South Sudanese refugees continued to arrive in DRC. At the beginning of December 2017, inauguration of the refugee site Kaka 1 near Dungu center, first emergency shelters were handed over to the refugees who previously lived with Congolese host families or at the local primary school, and to the newly arrived. 220 Congolese families in Dungu who had hosted refugees received a one-off cash grant of 90 USD from UNHCR.