Tag: UNHCR
UNHCR: 1.5% of the world’s population displaced
In 2023, the United States and Germany were the top destinations for those seeking long-term protection, with Germany receiving the…
Lagos gets City with refugees status
The World Refugee Day, is a yearly global event observed on the 20th June to specially celebrate and honour refugees…
Angelina Jolie visits Malian refugees In Burkina Faso
Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency visited a refugee camp in Burkina Faso on Sunday, the…
77 illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast – UNHCR
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday said that 77 illegal migrants have been rescued off the…
25m refugees travel 2bn kilometres yearly for safety – UNHCR
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that no fewer than 25 million refuges across the world…
UNHCR creates more Africa Bureaus
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expanded its Africa Bureau by adding three Regional offices to handle…
Daystar donates N10 million to UNHCR to cater for IDPs
Daystar Christian Centre, Lagos on Tuesday donated N10 million to the United Nations High Commission for Refugee, UNHCR to assist…
Pakistan: UNHCR resumes voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday said it had resumed voluntary repatriation programme for registered Afghan refugees from Pakistan…
20,000 South Sudan refugees return home from Uganda – UNHCR
The UN Refugee Agency on Wednesday said that over 20,000 South Sudanese Refugees had voluntarily returned home from Uganda following…
Lake Chad Basin: UN calls for humanitarian response for refugees
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday said that $135 million was needed from international communities to…
Boko Haram: IDPs commend UNHCR’s livelihood support programme
Some displaced persons in Bama town of Borno have commended the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), over the…
4 million refugee children are not in school – UNHCR
Four million refugee children in the world do not attend school and the total has increased dramatically, the UN Refugee…
UNHCR, ECOWAS train staff to enhance humanitarian response
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Economic Commission of West Africa States (ECOWAS) has commenced a…
UNHCR alarms as Mediterranean Sea deaths pass 1,500 mark
No fewer than 1,500 refugees and migrants have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean in the first seven…
Migrants’ standoff: UNHCR welcomes EU’s deal
The UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, has given a cautious welcome to the decision by several EU…
68.5million people displaced globally – UNHCR
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday announced that about 68.5million persons were currently displaced by conflicts…
68.5m people displaced globally – UNHCR
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi, said the number of people forced to flee their homes in…
UNHCR begins relocation of IDPs to permanent camp in Benue
UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has begun the process of relocating over 10,000 Cameroonian Internally Displaced Persons to permanent…
Cameroonian Govt. urged to respect human rights
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has appealed to the Government of Cameroon to respect human rights of…
UNHCR remains committed to fighting sexual exploitation, abuse against women
Mr Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has affirmed the commitment of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to…
UNHCR steps up support to Cameroonians fleeing to Nigeria
The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is stepping up its presence in south-eastern Nigeria, to provide life-saving support to…
FG, UNHCR launches Tripartite Commission for repatriation of Nigerian refugees
Nigerian, Cameroonian Governments and United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNCHR) have inaugurated a Tripartite Commission for the voluntary repatriation…
UNHCR: Tuface holds charity concert to support activities in North-East
As part of efforts to assist displaced persons, Tuface Foundation is organising a fund raising charity concert to support the…
UNHCR, 2Face Drum Support For IDPs In Borno
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) partnership with the singer, Innocent Idibia, (2 face Idibia), have inaugurated awareness…
UN to halt forceful repatriation of Nigerian refugees
UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is taking urgent steps to intervene in the forceful repatriation of Nigerian…
Yobe IDPs receive sanitation equipment from UNHCR
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday donated sanitation equipment to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in…
Returning Nigerian Refugees Could Create New Crisis – UNHCR
Nigerian refugees who fled Islamist militants are returning from Cameroon risk creating a new humanitarian crisis, the head of the…
UNHCR sends relief items for Congolese IDPS
The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is shipping tents, mosquito nets and other essential relief items to Angola, where…
Islamic State captures 3,000 Iraqi civilians
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that Islamic State fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on…
19 bodies recovered, 138 migrants rescued off island of Kalymnos
Greece on Friday rescued 138 refugees and recovered the bodies of 19 after their boat capsized off the island of…