President Muhammadu Buhari will begin a week-long official visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar from Monday. Buhari, according to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, will be accompanied by a high-powered Federal Government delegation, including the Minister of Stat...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 9 October 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. High Commissioner António Guterres is scheduled to begin a two and a half-day mission to Greece tomorro...

A joint delegation representing the Burma Army, ethnic Karen rebels and the government-affiliated Myanmar Peace Center arrived in Colombia this week to study the country’s peace process. The delegation from Burma included senior Burmese military officials Lt-Gen Ye Aung and Maj-Gen Tun Tun Naug; ...

Slovakia appreciates the support of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in helping Ukraine and people fleeing war

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and IOM, the UN Migration Agency, announced that the number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela worldwide has now reached three million. According to data from national immigration authorities and other sources, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean host an e...