ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The Government of Ethiopia today formally launched the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF), effectively paving the way for the implementation of the nine pledges it made at the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees in September 2016 in New York. Through the pledges, whic...

BANGUI, Central African Republic, June 27 (UNHCR) – Fresh violence and reprisal attacks in and around the Central African Republic town of Bambari has displaced thousands of people and left at least 45 people dead and scores wounded this week. The violence began early on Monday when armed element...

President U Thein Sein met the delegation of Karen National Union here on Tuesday afternoon. At the meeting held at the hall of the 500-acre model plantation of modern mechanized farming, U Thein Sein and the members of KNU led by Saw Mutu Sae Poe, chairman of KNU, and Pado Mahn Nyein Maung, a KN...

This piece is to mark 2016 International Women’s Day Celebrations and to remind the government and relevant authorities that in the midst of the celebrations going on globally today, some women and children are in deplorable conditions in some organized and unorganized displaced persons camps world ...

In Kenya, UNHCR began populating yesterday (Thursday, 18 August) a new part of the Dadaab refugee complex to provide shelter for tens of thousands of new Somali refugees and to ease the chronic overcrowding of the existing camps - namely Dagahaley, Ifo and Hagadera. The first group to occupy ten...