Leaders from ceasefire signatory and non-signatory ethnic armed groups are meeting in Chiang Mai this week to discuss cooperation on the peace process. The meeting involves representatives from both the Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) – a body under the auspices of the non-signatory co...

The 2014 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results released by the Ministry of Education showed very encouraging performance by refugee candidates in Kakuma with schools registering above average mean score of 259 out of 500. Of the 1,467 candidates who sat the exam, 1300(340 female, 960...

New York, 24 September 2014 - Thank you for your commitment to Somalia, and thank you for your participation discussing the situation in Somalia. I am glad to see so many partners, including the leaders from Ethiopia, Italy and the United Kingdom who jointly suggested this meeting. I am delight...

Statistics, if not properly explained, can become deceiving. Such is the case with Malian refugees in Niger. The total figure of around 50,000 has not changed since 2013 (51,700 at the end of 2013 and 52,500 today). What looks like a static situation and the same population is not the case. A recent...

2017-01-25 06:54 Dakar - At least 8 000 Gambians who fled the country have returned since strongman Yahya Jammeh went into exile after being threatened with regional military intervention, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday. Political outsider and businessman Adama Barrow won a December el...

On 25 and 26 April 2014, a UNHCR team visited the central mosque of Bangui’s 3rd district, in order to assess the needs of the more than 900 IDPs that are living at its premises, including South Sudanese refugees with Chadian refugees also in the same neighborhood. The team consulted with the Imam a...

JUBA, 03 February 2016 (UNHCR) – Chol Jacob was among half a million men, women and children who are at risk of becoming stateless in South Sudan, according to a UNHCR survey. Many have difficulty proving their links to South Sudan since the secession from Sudan in 2011, particularly those who ...

NAIROBI, Nov 1(Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen ambushed and killed at least eight Kenyan police officers in Turkana county in the northwest of Kenya early on Saturday, with another 12 officers were feared dead, police said. Two civilians were also killed, the police said, but did not provide detai...

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...