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  • GERMAN-FUNDED SCHOLARSHIP GIVES HOPE TO A YOUNG REFUGEE

    news UNHCR Kawambwa, 28 Sep 2020 (3 years ago )
    GERMAN-FUNDED SCHOLARSHIP GIVES HOPE TO A YOUNG REFUGEE By Bruce Mulenga Every year, millions of people, among them, children are forced to flee their homes to escape conflict and persecution and, in the process, miss out on education opportunities. It is already a hard thing to be a refugee ...
  • Modern technology helping refugees in Angola get aid fast

    news UNHCR, 01 Aug 2017 (6 years ago )
    A long queue snakes its way through Cacanda reception centre as people wait patiently to receive their monthly food rations of maize meal, cooking oil and beans. An average of 4,500 people queue daily to receive food and other items like blankets, mosquito nets, buckets and solar lamps. The distr...
  • New Zambia settlement gives refugees and hosts a chance to prosper

    news UNHCR, 21 Sep 2018 (5 years ago )
    A new approach that lets refugees live alongside the local community in Mantapala Settlement is boosting livelihoods for all.
  • President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, visited Kenani refugee transit centre in Nchelenge

    news Lusaka Times, 01 Nov 2017 (6 years ago )
    Pictures from the President's visit in Kenani TC
  • Preventing acute malnutrition among young Congolese refugee children

    news UNHCR, 10 Jul 2017 (6 years ago )
    Partners joined forces to distribute SuperCereal Plus, a highly nutritious fortified cereal for all Congolese refugee children aged from 6 months to two years at the Cacanda reception centre on 7 and 8 July. In June, a blanket monthly distribution of the nutritious supplementary foods to children ag...
  • Skin markings save farmer escaping DRC violence

    news UNHCR, 05 May 2017 (6 years ago )
    DUNDO, Angola – The smoke form the burning village hung in the air as the militiamen fanned out through the fields in search of residents to butcher. As her family scattered in different directions, Elena Kita was grabbed from behind by a strong pair of hands. The man who snatched her took out a ma...
  • The refugees learning to reconnect

    news UNHCR, 24 Jul 2015 (8 years ago )
    In Mauritania, a Congolese mother is helping refugees to reconnect by teaching IT, 17 years after her own displacement. The city of Nouakchott, Mauritania, is no stranger to refugees. Around 1,500 people who have fled some of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts now call it home. One of them, Budiaki*, i...
  • Thousands of DR Congo refugees escaping violence to Uganda

    news Al Jazeera, 13 Apr 2018 (5 years ago )
    Al Jazeera travels Lake Albert, on the DR Congo-Uganda border, to meet some of the refugees who have fled violence in Congo.
  • UNHCR donates ambulance to Ministry of Health for refugees

    news Diggers News, 05 Jun 2018 (5 years ago )
    UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has donated an ambulance to the Ministry of Health through the Office of the Commissioner for Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Nchelenge District in Luapula Province. The donation will support the effective and timely health service delivery among the 15,553 C...
  • Unaccompanied and separated Congolese children - a worry for UNHCR

    news UNHCR, 26 Oct 2017 (6 years ago )
    As the number of refugees in Zambia’s Kenani transit centre exceeds 5,000 individuals, unaccompanied and separated children make up an alarming 60 per cent