As Sub-Saharan crises force more to flee, UNHCR calls for stronger Mediterranean route response
The international community must do more to save lives of refugees taking risky routes towards the Mediterranean, warns UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, releasing today its 2021 strategic action plan and related funding appeal for this situation. Deeply worried about...
With refugee resettlement at a record low in 2020, UNHCR calls on States to offer places and save lives
Despite an estimated 1.44 million refugees in urgent need of resettlement globally, only 22,770 were resettled through UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, last year. This is according to annual statistics released by the agency today. These are the lowest refugee...
Climate change and conflict pursue displaced Burkinabes
In Burkina Faso, the displaced struggle to find a refuge from violence and the effects of global heating. By UNHCR Staff Sambo Maiga, 49, fondly remembers the wide stretch of land he used to tend in the Burkina Faso village of Taouremba in the Sahel region. His...
Sahel internal displacement tops 2 million as violence surges
Grim milestone reached in world’s fastest-growing displacement crisis as fighting uproots 11,400 within Burkina Faso. By Moussa Bougma in Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso On the evening of 31 December, as the hours ticked down to the New Year, 40-year-old Aguiratou Diallo was...
Over 100,000 displaced by resurgence of violence in Sudan’s Darfur region
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, is concerned by recent violence in Sudan’s Darfur...
Grim milestone as Sahel violence displaces 2 million inside their countries
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, is calling for an end to the unrelenting violence in...
Sweet story: “Peace by Chocolate” documents Hadhad family’s extraordinary journey from Syria to Canada
By Tareq Hadhad and John Tattrie, as told to Lauren La Rose Tareq Hadhad ended the year much like he started it: marking two major milestones of his remarkable new life in Canada. The week before Christmas 2020 marked five years since Tareq landed in Canada as a...
Assistance slowly returns to refugee camps in southern Tigray
UNHCR regains access to Adi Harush and Mai Aini camps while two other camps for Eritrean refugees remain cut off by the ongoing insecurity. By Chris Melzer in Adi Harush camp, Ethiopia Abraham is less apprehensive now that he has seen aid workers return to Adi Harush...