Refugees
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:09
Kenya’s interior minister said Friday that the country’s refugee camps were havens for Somali extremists and called for hundreds of thousands of refugees to return home, amplifying anti-Somali sentiment sparked by the Westgate mall attack in September.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 08:03
Envoy to Eritrea says country's citizens run risk of being shot by their own troops if they try to flee their homeland.
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 07:20
The U.N. envoy also proposed the establishment of humanitarian zone inside Syria in order to decrease the influx of refugees into neighboring countries particularly Lebanon which houses an estimated 1.3 million refugees.
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 12:13
The war, Mr. Hallaj and United Nations officials in Syria said, is disintegrating administrative and social structures at a pace that makes it impossible to deliver adequate aid even if financing were available, which it is not.
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 11:46
The United States announced Thursday that it would contribute $1 million to a United Nations trust fund to help resettle Iranian exiles in Iraq who have been housed in Camp Hurriya.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 12:13
His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday voiced Jordan’s willingness to support and facilitate UN efforts to address the Syrian conflict through peaceful means.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 11:53
Activists say militias hold migrants in stores, schools and abandoned buildings as well as detention centres, abusing them and holding them hostage until they receive money from the migrants’ families.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 12:37
The House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa convenes to discuss the ongoing Syrian crisis in relation to Iran's influence in the region.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:52
After original proposal rejected by court, government seeks ‘conventional and legal ways’ to end unwanted African immigration.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:48
Talks between Sleiman and EU Ambassadors focused on “the general situation in Lebanon and the region, the impact of the conflict in Syria on Lebanon, as well as the partnership between the European Union and Lebanon.”