Refugees
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 07:53
The two sides reaffirmed their mutual readiness to continue the dialogue established whilst taking into account the key aspects of Turkmen foreign policy.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 08:40
Humanitarian access was allowed into Syria’s besieged Yarmouk refugee camp on Tuesday after a two-week halt, according to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA).
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 08:18
Despite the dangers involved in trying to reach the two enclaves – injury and death are not uncommon – the number of those seeking to cross over has surged in recent months.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 08:16
The ongoing insurgency in northern Nigeria, called “Boko Haram,” and the government’s often brutal attempts to suppress it, have produced a tide of refugees and internally displaced in one of the world’s poorest regions.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 07:52
The UN struggles to move nearly eighty thousand refugees from one of its bases after a coup attempt in December.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:46
Abdul Karim arrived in Cameroon’s eastern border town of Garoua-Boula from Central African Republic’s Yaloke district at the end of February as part the largest influx of refugees into Cameroon.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:38
More than 77,000 South Sudanese refugees are registered in Uganda as asylum seekers according to the Office of the Prime Minister.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:26
About 55,000 people have been displaced by the recent violence in Saraf Omra, the latest humanitarian bulletin of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:09
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says it is in the process of relocating civilians displaced amid the recent conflict to better shelter ahead of coming rains.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 07:53
On Tuesday March 4, the Department of State released the Congressional Budget Justification for the administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget request. The report details how a requested base budget of $40.3 billion and an additional $5.9 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funds would be spent on the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, if approved.