Lockdown learners: Refugee students on challenges during pandemic
To understand the challenges refugee students faced as the coronavirus swept around the world, we asked two members of the Canada-based Refugee Education Council – one in Lima, Peru, and one in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya – to quiz each other about how they had...
Grandi calls for peace in Ethiopia, stresses ‘there is no military solution’
High Commissioner for Refugees visits eastern Sudan to bring focus to the situation of nearly 48,000 Ethiopians who have fled Tigray. By Catherine Wachiaya in Um Rakuba camp, Sudan Hailu Mehari crossed into Sudan last November with his wife and their two children,...
UNHCR regains access to Tigray refugee camps, calls for emergency funds to scale up assistance
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and its partners have regained access to the Mai Aini...