Mr. Julian Fantino, Minister of International Cooperation of Canada visited Mentao Refugee camp in the Soum on 11 September 2012 with UNHCR, who organized the visit together with the Embassy of Canada in Ouagadougou. During his visit, the Minister met and interacted with refugee leaders, a group of ...

On the 17 January 2014, the USAID Regional Rep, Nancy Lindberg, Assistant Administrator visited the joint UNHCR-WFP distribution of NFI and food within M’Poko Airport in Bangui. The distribution at the site is an inter-agency effort involving UNHCR, WFP and its implementing partner COOPI. UNHCR acts...

By Tara Fischer in Darfur and Mohamed El Fatih El Naiem in Khartoum | 26 October 2017 Twenty-five Sudanese refugee leaders are returning to their home villages for the first time this week on go-and-see visits organised by UNHCR and its government counterparts in Chad and Sudan. This follows...

Agências da ONU, sociedade civil e autoridades estaduais e municipais realizam na manhã desta quinta-feira (4), em Manaus (AM), uma oficina sobre nutrição infantil que vai abordar os desafios vividos por crianças venezuelanas no Amazonas. A capacitação tem como público-alvo profissionais da rede púb...

Bono and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, visited a camp of 2.3 million displaced people in Borno State, in Nigeria’s northeast region over the weekend. The governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, accompanied Dangote and the Irish rock star on the trip. On Monday, Bono and Dangote met wi...

At Minawao refugee camp in northern Cameroon, UN staff are busy registering new arrivals. Refugees who cross the border in search of safety arrive at this camp, where they join over 30,000 others who fled the insurgency in Nigeria's northeastern states. Most of the refugees started to come to the...

(Adds quote) BANGUI Dec 4 (Reuters) - Armed men in the Central African Republic killed eight civilians at a camp for displaced people and wounded one U.N. peacekeeper, just days after the pope visited the capital, the country's U.N. humanitarian coordinator said on Friday. The attacks took pla...

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today’s Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR websites, www.unhcr.org and www.unhcr.fr, which should also be checked for regular media updates on non-briefing days UNHCR urges CAR’...

GENEVA (6 October 2016) – A delegation of the United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries will visit the Central African Republic from 10 to 19 October 2016 to gather information on the activities of mercenaries and foreign fighters that have been engaged in the conflict there. The Group...

The renowned soprano visits Damba camp in northern Burkina Faso to raise awareness about the refugees in Africa’s Sahel region and to help raise funds. By: Helene Caux, ed. Leo Dobbs | 9 July 2012 | Français DAMBA CAMP, Burkina Faso, July 9 (UNHCR) - Renowned soprano Barbara Hendricks has ...