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Joint statement by UNHCR and OPM on preliminary results of refugee verification exercise
news UNHCR Africa, 09 Nov 2018 (5 years ago )By the end of the verification exercise 1,092,213 individuals have been verified as present representing 76 per cent of the initial target. During the verification exercise, OPM continued to attend to the ongoing emergency and registered new arrivals in all settlements and at transit centers along t... -
Refugees bear cost of massive underfunding
news UNHCR, 10 Oct 2018 (5 years ago )Funding for the world’s forcibly displaced and stateless people is becoming increasingly squeezed, with barely more than half of needs being met, and worsening hardship and risks for many refugees, other displaced people and the communities they live among. Six refugee and displacement situations gl... -
World leaders voice strong support for new refugee deal at UN General Assembly
news UNHCR, 24 Sep 2018 (6 years ago )"Almost nine in 10 of the world’s refugees are hosted in developing countries, where they often live in remote areas with significant development challenges. The impact on local services, infrastructure and resources “is colossal,” Grandi said. “Host countries have kept their borders open at a time ... -
Burundian refugee returns must be voluntary and sustainable
news UNHCR, 24 Aug 2018 (6 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and partners are urging Tanzania to ensure Burundian refugee returns are voluntary and based on individual choices – in keeping with the country’s longstanding history of generosity toward those fleeing persecution, and in line with its international obligations. -
British Hollywood actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw met with refugees this week in Rwanda’s Mahama and Gihembe refugee camps, on her first trip with U...
news UNHCR Rwanda, 14 Aug 2018 (6 years ago )“It’s one thing to hear about UNHCR’s work, and another to witness it first-hand. It has been eye-opening to meet the refugees who have fled unimaginable violence and suffering, and to hear their stories. -
Appalling conditions for Burundi and Congolese refugees in Tanzania
news DW, 19 June 2018, 20 Jun 2018 (6 years ago )About 355,000 refugees from Burundi and DR Congo live in western Tanzania, where they are barred from working or setting foot outside their makeshift camps. The conditions are "miserable," as Prosper Kwigize reports. -
Burundian refugees in Congo forge a better future
news UNHCR, 17 April 2018, 20 Jun 2018 (6 years ago )To escape poverty, handicapped Burundian refugees founded the association Dufashanye, meaning “Mutual Support” in Kirundi, the language spoken in Burundi. The 32-member association set up a workshop in Lusenda refugee camp in South Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and helps refu... -
Learning together forges friendships between Rwandan and Burundian students
news UNHCR, 6 March 2018, 20 Jun 2018 (6 years ago )The Paysannat L School brings refugee and local children together in classrooms. Paysannat L started out in 1997 as a small primary school, but expanded in 2015 in order to accommodate thousands of Burundian children who joined the exodus after renewed violence broke out. -
Refugee children battle for education in Tanzania
news UNHCR, 4 January 2018, 20 Jun 2018 (6 years ago )In Nduta refugee camp, a shortage of funds sees some school classes held under trees.“When it rains everything gets wet,” says Irahoze, 14, who fled Burundi and now studies beneath the trees in Tanzania’s Nduta refugee camp. “When it’s windy, the branches fall and when the sun is strong it’s too hot... -
UNHCR calls on DRC to protect refugees after tragic killings
news UNHCR, 19 Sep 2017 (7 years ago )UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure protection for refugees and asylum-seekers after a shocking shooting incident in Kamanyola on September 15 in which at least 39 people were killed and another 94 injured [...]