Over half a million Sudanese refugees in Libya since conflict began in April 2023, UNHCR

21 april 2026 - 13:38:55

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 559,920 Sudanese refugees have been received by Libya since the outbreak of the conflict in Sudan in April [...] Full text...

Fleeing Sudan's war, refugees rebuild their lives in Uganda (By Abdelmonem Makki, UN News)

15 april 2026 - 08:00:08

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - On the outskirts of the Ugandan town of Biale, tents are scattered along dirt roads that give way to open fields. [...] Full text...

Tech gaps and budget cuts threaten global efforts to track and help the vulnerable

13 april 2026 - 18:40:10

New York, US (PANA) - Digital tools are changing the way countries manage everything from tracking refugees to caring for the elderly.But as nations gather [...] Full text...

Libya holds discussions to support Sudanese refugees

13 april 2026 - 12:31:51

Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Authority for Relief and Humanitarian Aid has launched discussions to monitor the situation of the Sudanese refugee community in [...] Full text...

Emergency aid needed as thousands of DRC refugees return from Burundi

25 march 2026 - 07:23:01

Goma, DRC (PANA) - Since the reopening of the border between Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on 23 February, more than 33,000 [...] Full text...

Egypt: UN experts raise alarm over violations against refugees and migrants

06 march 2026 - 13:01:28

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – UN experts on Friday expressed alarm over an intensifying campaign of deportations, arbitrary arrests and human rights violations targeting refugees, asylum [...] Full text...

Concerns raised about ‘coercive’ repatriation of Burundian refugees from Tanzania

25 february 2026 - 07:55:20

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Concerns have been raised about the “coercive” repatriation from Tanzania of Burundian refugees, many of whom do not want [...] Full text...

UN appeals for $1.6 billion to support millions of refugees in Sudan

18 february 2026 - 08:00:58

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As the war in Sudan continues to rage, the UN and more than 120 partner organisations are launching a new appeal [...] Full text...

Arrival of Sudanese refugees and migrants in Europe tripled in 2025 - IOM

29 january 2026 - 05:46:48

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - While more than 155,000 migrants and refugees managed to reach Europe via the Mediterranean last year, the UN migration agency (IOM) [...] Full text...

Kenya plan showcases bold vision for refugee self-reliance

13 january 2026 - 07:55:47

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Barham Salih has made his first official visit as UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), calling in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, [...] Full text...

Burundi: The massive influx of Congolese refugees is putting unsustainable pressure on health services

07 january 2026 - 08:42:34

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Since 5 December, more than 100,000 DR Congo refugees and Burundian returnees have sought refuge in Burundi. This massive influx is putting [...] Full text...

100,000 refugees from DRC flow into Burundi in nearly a month

30 december 2025 - 08:19:32

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - While massive and continuous population displacements are reported within the Congolese province of South Kivu, Burundi, a country bordering the Democratic [...] Full text...

DRC refugees in Burundi face a drastic drop in food aid

23 december 2025 - 08:30:57

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Struggling with severe funding shortfalls, the World Food Programme (WFP) has cut food rations for refugees in Burundi by 75%. This decision [...] Full text...

DRC conflict: Neighbouring Burundi overwhelmed by the influx of refugees

21 december 2025 - 06:53:06

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundian border is buckling under the strain. Since the beginning of December, more than 84,000 people have fled the violence [...] Full text...

More than 60,000 Congolese have sought refuge in Burundi in ten days following M23 offensive in South Kivu

16 december 2025 - 09:08:21

Bujumbura, Buruni (PANA) - Following the M23 armed group's assault on the city of Uvira in South Kivu province, in the east of the Democratic [...] Full text...

UNHCR chief Grandi urges solidarity to counter toxic scapegoat rhetoric

16 december 2025 - 07:13:20

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Asylum is becoming increasingly politicised as humanitarian funding shrinks – and it’s against this backdrop that reaffirming global support for refugees [...] Full text...

Sudan: 89,000 civilians have fled El Fasher

11 november 2025 - 17:20:33

New York, US  (PANA) - The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday warned of a deepening crisis in Sudan’s North Darfur as violence spreads [...] Full text...

UNHCR fears halt to refugee returns in Africa due to lack of funding

09 november 2025 - 08:17:45

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - More than 42,000 refugees have been able to voluntarily return home this year in West and Central Africa, bringing the total [...] Full text...

CAR: Thousands of civilians seek refuge with the UN on the Sudanese border

26 september 2025 - 05:11:18

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly 5,000 fleeing civilians have gathered in recent days around a UN peacekeepers base in the Central African Republic (CAR), near [...] Full text...

Libya's eastern-based government discusses support for displaced persons

02 september 2025 - 12:32:17

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Libyan government installed in the east, Abdulhadi al-Huwaij, has discussed support [...] Full text...

IOM: More than 1,000 families flee Sudan's besieged El Fasher city

01 september 2025 - 07:49:52

Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced on Sunday that more than a thousand families have fled Sudan's besieged El [...] Full text...

Sudan and eastern-based Libyan govt discuss voluntary return programme for Sudanese refugees

27 august 2025 - 16:07:35

Benghazi, Libya  (PANA)  - Officials of Libya's eastern-based government and Sudan have met to discuss modalities of the voluntary return programme for Sudanese expatriates residing [...] Full text...

Surge in flow of Burkinabe refugees into Mali

18 august 2025 - 06:40:22

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - In barely a week, the small town of Koro in central Mali has seen an influx of more than 8,000 Burkinabe [...] Full text...

UNHCR flags Uganda’s refugee funding crisis

05 august 2025 - 06:01:49

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Since the beginning of 2025, 600 refugees have arrived in Uganda each day, bringing the total number of new arrivals to [...] Full text...

Nearly a thousand new Sudanese refugees arrive in Libya

19 june 2025 - 10:37:24

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 1,000 Sudanese have taken refuge in Libya following recent clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support [...] Full text...

Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR

12 june 2025 - 07:14:16

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With 13.5 million people displaced by over 13 years of brutal civil conflict, Syria used to represent the largest displacement crisis [...] Full text...

Refugees find hope through legal migration

11 june 2025 - 05:33:11

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly one million refugees from eight countries with high asylum recognition rates were granted entry permits to 38 destination countries between [...] Full text...

Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges

03 june 2025 - 17:11:02

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in [...] Full text...

Refugees in Kenya facing ‘lowest ever’ emergency food rations amid funding crisis

23 may 2025 - 05:10:36

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday that it has been forced to cut food aid to unprecedented lows [...] Full text...

Sudan exodus: Worst situation in decades, UN refugee agency warns

17 may 2025 - 09:39:44

N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Tens of thousands of refugees fleeing escalating violence in Sudan continue to escape to Chad at speeds not seen since the [...] Full text...

Sudan: More than 40,000 refugees have flocked to Chad in one month - UNHCR

15 may 2025 - 09:57:43

N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - More than 40,000 Sudanese, the majority of them women and children, have fled the ongoing fighting in Sudan to seek refuge [...] Full text...

Mandela’s great-grandson slams Afrikaner 'refugees'

14 may 2025 - 10:25:08

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nelson Mandela’s great-grandson, Mayibuye Mandela, has called on South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs to strip the 49 Afrikaners who [...] Full text...

South Africa's Afrikaner 'refugees' flee to the US

12 may 2025 - 07:41:38

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Forty-nine Afrikaners granted refugee status by the US government departed from OR Tambo International Airport on a chartered aircraft [...] Full text...

Pretoria protests US decision to accept South African 'refugees'

10 may 2025 - 09:27:53

Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa is protesting the decision of the US to process alleged refugees from the country to resettle them in [...] Full text...

UN fund allocates over $4 million to support DRC refugees, Angola cholera outbreak

10 may 2025 - 07:56:03

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two new allocations from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will support DRC refugees in Uganda and efforts to combat [...] Full text...

Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates: UNHCR

06 may 2025 - 12:49:19

N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Thousands of exhausted Sudanese refugees continue to flee fighting in search of safety in neighbouring Chad, aid teams said on Tuesday, as [...] Full text...

Funding crisis increases danger and risks for refugees: UNHCR

02 may 2025 - 17:51:50

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday that a worsening funding crisis is placing refugees – who cannot return home [...] Full text...

DR Congo crisis forces refugees to swim for their lives to Burundi

25 april 2025 - 15:23:57

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The number of desperate refugees fleeing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and seeking safety in Burundi continues [...] Full text...

DR Congo crisis: 41,700 refugees have fled violence to Uganda

09 april 2025 - 08:15:14

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Some 41,000 refugees have crossed from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into Uganda since January, many of them having [...] Full text...

Thousands arrive in Burundi within days, fleeing rising tension and violence in eastern DRC: UNHCR

19 february 2025 - 09:45:02

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Between 10,000 and 15,000 people have crossed into Burundi over the last few days, fleeing escalating tension and violence in the [...] Full text...

Chad, Nigeria sign agreement for voluntary refugee repatriation

06 february 2025 - 05:12:51

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The governments of Chad and Nigeria, in collaboration with UN refugee agency, UNHCR, have signed a tripartite agreement to allow the [...] Full text...

More than 125,000 refugees return to Syria in desperate conditions

09 january 2025 - 15:13:33

Damascus, Syria (PANA) - A month since the fall of the Assad regime, more than 125,000 refugees have returned to Syria “full of hope after [...] Full text...

UNHCR urges greater support for people fleeing post-election violence in Mozambique

31 december 2024 - 20:51:01

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is deeply alarmed by the ongoing situation in Mozambique, where post-election unrest has forced thousands to flee [...] Full text...

UN mission, agencies in Libya visit Kufra to address Sudanese refugee situation

21 december 2024 - 11:23:05

Kufra, Libya (PANA) - A high-level United Nations delegation visited Kufra in southeastern Libya on Wednesday to assess the ongoing humanitarian response for Sudanese refugees. Led [...] Full text...

Displacement crisis reaches 123 million, amid ongoing conflicts

07 november 2024 - 05:49:53

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called for “urgent international support” as the number of forcibly displaced [...] Full text...

Sudan refugee numbers swell as war continues to drive displacement

12 october 2024 - 11:22:22

Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The number of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan has surpassed half a million, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, announced on [...] Full text...

Humanitarian charity flags dire conditions for Burkinabe refugees in central Mali amid lean season

22 august 2024 - 05:04:14

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - As the lean season intensifies across Mali, the situation for thousands of people who have fled ongoing violence in Burkina Faso [...] Full text...

UNHCR evacuates 119 refugees from Libya to Italy

31 july 2024 - 14:49:08

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 119 refugees and asylum seekers have been evacuated from Libya to Italy, the Office of the United Nations [...] Full text...

UN supports Sudanese refugees in Libya 

31 july 2024 - 05:14:49

New York, US (PANA) - A $5.3 million allocation from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will support some 195,000 vulnerable Sudanese refugees in [...] Full text...

Refugees, migrants face violence, abuse and death on routes across Africa, new data shows

06 july 2024 - 09:06:09

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Refugees and migrants continue to face extreme forms of violence, exploitation and death on sea and on land across Africa as [...] Full text...