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Tripoli, Libya (PANA)- A total of 41 refugees have left Libya this week by air to be resettled in Norway, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Wednesday

©- - 31 august 2022 - 16:24:43 - thread (161 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has given 4 million euros to support the local office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in its protection and assistance activities for 60,000 Burundians who have recently returned from exile, the two parties announced in a statement received by PANA on Tuesday

©- - 01 february 2022 - 12:38:08 - thread (323 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga said here Sunday at least 50,000 Malian refugees out of an estimated 350,000 had arrived in their villages of origin between 28 December 2021 and 28 January 2022

©- - 31 january 2022 - 18:23:30 - thread (492 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Following an in-depth analysis of the situation in Côte d’Ivoire, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) recommended on Thursday that countries hosting Ivorians end their refugee status, and help them to voluntarily repatriate, obtain permanent residency or begin the naturalization process to remain

©- - 08 october 2021 - 05:54:17 - thread (548 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The United States said on Wednesday it was deeply concerned about reports of attacks by military forces affiliated to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and Tigrayan militias against Eritrean refugees in the Tigray region

©- - 28 july 2021 - 21:41:59 - thread (200 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 217,000 people have been displaced by the conflict in Libya, the European Union (EU) Mission revealed, while the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recorded the presence of 43,000 refugees and asylum seekers in the country

©- - 11 june 2021 - 09:16:41 - thread (272 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 127 Burundian refugee households returned home on Tuesday from neighboring Tanzania where they had taken shelter from the violent electoral crisis of 2015 in their country, the Burundi public radio reported on Wednesday

©- - 24 february 2021 - 16:57:55 - thread (313 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Alarmed at the increasing frequency of expulsions and pushbacks of refugees and asylum-seekers at Europe’s land and sea borders, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for states to investigate and halt these practices

©- - 28 january 2021 - 11:46:50 - thread (551 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Pregnant women, separated families and sick elderly people are among thousands of refugees continuing to arrive daily into Sudan from conflict-stricken Ethiopia, the Norwegian Refugee Council said Friday

©- - 20 november 2020 - 10:50:08 - thread (467 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The second group of 511 Burundian refugees were repatriated on Thurday from Mahama Refugee Camp in Rwanda, the Ministry of Emergency Management confirmed to PANA in Kigali

©- - 24 september 2020 - 13:38:36 - thread (224 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Welcoming this week’s agreement with the African Union (AU) and Rwanda to set up a refugee transit mechanism for evacuation of vulnerable refugees out of Libya, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Friday urged other countries to follow this example with further actions to save lives

©- - 13 september 2019 - 12:18:25 - thread (502 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the African Union (AU) on receiving and providing protection to refugees and asylum seekers who are currently being held in detention centres in Libya

©- - 10 september 2019 - 13:01:09 - thread (314 words)


Tunis, Tunisia (PANA)   -   The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has decided, after 30 years of collaboration, to suspend its cooperation and partnership with the Tunisian Red Crescent, an official source told PANA here Monday

©- - 01 july 2019 - 21:43:43 - thread (178 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The number of refugees fleeing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and being hosted at the Kenani transit centre in the north of Zambia has now passed the 10,000 mark since August this year
©- - 11 december 2017 - 14:55:03 - thread (374 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The number of refugees fleeing militia violence in south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and arriving in neighbouring Zambia has crossed the 12,000 mark – with more than 8,400 arrivals in the last three months, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC)
©- - 01 december 2017 - 09:48:18 - thread (352 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - One year on since the historic United Nations summit for refugees and migrants, the international community has failed to make meaningful progress towards meeting the goals of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, Oxfam said Monday
©- - 18 september 2017 - 17:58:32 - thread (573 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The number of Congolese asylum-seekers that have fled to Zambia from neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past one week has now gone over 1,800
©- - 08 september 2017 - 14:38:13 - thread (369 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Over 500 Congolese asylum-seekers have fled into Zambia within a day, the biggest single entry of new arrivals in three years, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced in Lusaka
©- - 31 august 2017 - 15:20:00 - thread (457 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Office of the Commissioner for Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs in Zambia, together with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, on Tuesday officially handed over the Chair and Co-chair of the National Advisory Group (NAG) on the Local Integration of former refugees in Zambia
©- - 13 december 2016 - 17:28:19 - thread (510 words)


New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned the attack against a security post at a refugee hosting area of Tazalit, in the Tahoua region of Niger, bordering Mali, on 6 October, in which at least 22 members of Niger’s security forces were killed and several others injured
©- - 07 october 2016 - 19:44:40 - thread (348 words)


New York, US (PANA) - The US government on Friday announced a contribution of US$11 million to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to support the Emerging Resettlement Countries Joint Support Mechanism (ERCM), a platform established to help countries create robust and sustainable refugee resettlement programmes
©- - 16 september 2016 - 16:35:19 - thread (337 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Five middle-distance runners from South Sudan, until recently living in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, have flown out of the capital city of Nairobi to take part in the first-ever Olympic refugee team for the Summer Games holding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
©- - 29 july 2016 - 22:30:17 - thread (477 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A dozen buses carrying 900 Burundians who have fled their country in fear of possible violence related to the forthcoming elections have arrived in southeastern Rwanda's Busegera district, the state-run Radio Rwanda reported Thursday
©- - 16 april 2015 - 19:56:56 - thread (198 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan government has issued a three-month ultimatum to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to relocate Somali and Ethiopian refugees at the refugee camps in Dadaab, North Eastern Kenya, following the killing of 147 University campus students
©- - 11 april 2015 - 18:50:03 - thread (348 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - With the escalation in Yemen’s conflict, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is seeing a rise in people fleeing by boat across the Gulf of Aden to countries in the Horn of Africa – historically a route travelled by refugees and migrants headed in the opposite direction, a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency said Friday at a press briefing in Geneva
©- - 10 april 2015 - 15:18:01 - thread (829 words)


Douala, Cameroon (PANA) - The Cameroonian authorities are worried about the arrival of about 40,000 Nigerians who have fled their country because of the activities of the Islamist group, Boko Haram, between July and August, PANA learned on Monday from humanitarian sources
©- - 01 september 2014 - 22:26:48 - thread (267 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - An influx of Sudanese and Somali refugees has been recorded in five camps in Ethiopia, with fresh arrivals expected due to the crisis in Sudan's Blue Nile state, aid agencies warned Wednesday
©- - 09 january 2013 - 19:05:02 - thread (292 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Some 22,889 Malians fleeing the Tuareg rebellion in the North-west of their country have taken refuge in Mauritania, PANA learned Wednesday from a Mauritanian NGO
©- - 22 february 2012 - 13:22:52 - thread (131 words)


New York, US (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday that it was working to move refugees, who had fled fighting in southern parts of Sudan and crossed over into neighbouring South Sudan away from the border, to safer areas due to security concerns
©- - 18 november 2011 - 21:04:54 - thread (439 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 4,057 Burundian refugees have returned from exile since January, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bujumbura announced Thursday
©- - 17 november 2011 - 17:00:43 - thread (175 words)


Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - About 50,000 Congolese who fled the civil war in their country to seek refuge in Gabon between 1997 and 2003 have been told by the Gabonese government to return home as their refugee status expired Sunday, 31 July, PANA learnt Tuesday from official sources
©- - 02 august 2011 - 13:33:02 - thread (247 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The UN refugee agency has said 42,680 asylum seekers, out of the 43,708 in Burundi, are believed to be from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where insecurity has persisted for years
©- - 01 august 2011 - 12:40:45 - thread (216 words)


Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - DR Congo's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior and Security Adolphe Lumanu Mulenda Bwana N'sefu has urged the country's refugees in Congo to return home
©- - 29 july 2011 - 11:03:55 - thread (156 words)


Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday that for tens of thousands of displaced persons in Western Côte d'Ivoire and most of the refugees in neighbouring Liberia, their return home is being delayed by tension and risks
©- - 03 may 2011 - 20:55:37 - thread (325 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Some 16,914 refugees, fleeing from the post-election crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, arrived in Zegoua, a border town in Mali, between 18 and 31 March, the Malian Press Agency (AMAP) reported
©- - 05 april 2011 - 12:04:13 - thread (154 words)