An alliance of ethnic armed groups have said that they have reached an agreement with the government about a nationwide ceasefire but now need to take the draft wording to a summit for their leaders to ratify and sign the document. Naing Hong Sar, head of the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Tea...

The UN Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Volker Turk, will pay a five-day official working visit to Nigeria from Feb. 18 to 22. This is contained in a statement signed by External Relations Officer, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Nigeria, Hanson Tamfu in Abuja. It stated th...

The partner of French President Francois Hollande, Valerie Trierweiler, visited on Tuesday a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon to urge for more help to deal with the refugee influx.

The new head of the UN’s refugee agency visited a camp in southeastern Turkey on Friday. Filippo Grandi, who became the High Commissioner for Refugees earlier this month, arrived at the camp in Gaziantep province’s Nizip district where some of the near 2.5 million refugees housed by Turkey are st...