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  • Increase in registered Syrian refugees, new camps planned in Turkey and Jordan

    news www.unhcr.org, 31 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    The number of Syrian refugees registered or assisted by UNHCR in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey has almost tripled since April 2012 and now stands at 112,000. Three quarters are women and children. This actual number of Syrian refugees is thought to be significantly higher, as many people seek to...
  • After a decade in Mogadishu Tanzanian refugees return to Zanzibar

    news www.unhcr.org, 31 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    This past weekend UNHCR successfully completed the voluntary repatriation of 38 Tanzanian refugees from Zanzibar who had been residing in Mogadishu for the past 11 years. The group, comprising 12 families, were flown on two special UNHCR-chartered flights from Mogadishu to Zanzibar on Friday 6 Ju...
  • Sharp increase in Malian refugee arrivals in Mauritania, critical low funding levels

    news , 31 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    Six months ago refugees began fleeing Mali to Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso. Today, political instability in Bamako and insecurity in northern Mali continue to trigger the flight of thousands of refugees to neighbouring countries and other parts of Mali. Over 365,000 people are estimated to hav...
  • Announcing the Winners of the Global HackForGood

    news Technology for Good, 20 Jun 2013 (10 years ago )
    There was such overwhelming interest in our Global Hack for Good on World Refugee Day – we could not accommodate all that wanted to participate! So we are announcing the old fashioned way – on Facebook and Twitter! First, the challenge: The number of forcibly displaced people around the worl...
  • UK asylum seeker claims harrowing deportation

    news Al Jazeera, 01 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    London, United Kingdom - A Somali man forcibly returned to Mogadishu from the UK under a controversial new scheme to send home failed asylum seekers has described how he was punched and kicked by the British guards who accompanied him, and left him bleeding in a cell after having a tooth knocked out...
  • US to name first envoy to Somalia in decades.

    news Aljazeera, 03 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    President Barack Obama is set to announce the first American ambassador to Somalia since the civil war erupted more than 20 years ago, according to a US diplomat. "As a reflection both of our deepening relationship with the country and of our faith that better times are ahead, the president will ...