On 10 April 2014 , UNHCR Representative, Mr. Kouassi Lazare Etien, and the Central African authorities : a Representative of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, of the Ministry of Health, social Affairs and Humanitarian Action , the National Commission for Refugees (CNR)...

Local authorities, partners and UNHCR staff gathered on the 13th of september to celebrate the construction of the new system that will give the refugee population of the camp of Abala a closer, faster and safer access to water. Financed by the UNHCR, the new system cost 165 000 USD and includes...

Current Situation: On 5th February, a total of 242 new arrivals were received from Nadapal border point. This is a significant decrease from yesterday’s figure of 470. It is not clear what is causing the fluctuation of the daily arrivals. Close monitoring of the daily arrivals has been ongoing sinc...

In August, an ambitious data collection exercise was jointly launched by UNHCR, the Government of Cote d’Ivoire, and the National Institute of Statistics (INS) to map and improve data on statelessness in the country. The nation-wide mapping, a first of its type in Africa, is in line with the ov...

A total of 226 Venezuelans living in Boa Vista (Roraima) will be relocated to eight Brazilian cities on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 Feb. They will be hosted by 11 shelters run by six civil society institutions located in: Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul), Caixas do Sul (Rio Grande do Sul), Goioerê (Pa...

UNHCR and Government of Zambia begin second phase of refugee repatriation to DR Congo LUSAKA, ZAMBIA - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Zambian government have resumed the voluntary repatriation of Congolese refugees from northern Zambia to Pweto in Haut Katanga province in the Democratic R...