Tag: UNHCR
Nigeria sends Togo asylum seekers back home – UNHCR
AP — Nigerian authorities have deported at least 100 Togolese asylum seekers, many of them the children who have been…
Insurgency: UNHCR donates relief materials to 43,000 IDPs in Taraba
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday donated relief materials to 43,000 Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) in various…
Boko Haram: We can help you reduce human rights violations, UNHCR tells Buhari
The UN High Commission for Human Rights says it is ready to assist President Muhammadu Buhari to overhaul the rules…
14,000 South Sudanese flee Sudan – UNHCR
The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported that some 14,000 South Sudanese, mainly women and children, fled into…
Breaking: 700 African migrants drown in Libyan waters
Seven hundred people are feared to have drowned when a fishing boat smuggling migrants to Europe capsized off Libya, the…
UNHCR needs $174.4m to assist victims of Boko Haram
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has issued an urgent funding appeal for 174.4 million dollars to help 192,000 refugees…
Protect displaced persons, UNHCR tells FG
The United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), on Thursday appealed to the federal and state governments to enact laws…
River Of Tears In Mubi
By Oyebanji Gbenga The song of Eric Patrick Clapton “River of Tears” invoke sober feelings and pains. The month of…
Boko Haram: Over 13,000 Nigerian refugees flee to Cameroun, says UN
The UN Refugee Agency on Tuesday said violence by Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria’s northeast continues to send thousands of…
Over 100,000 Kurds Flee Syria For Turkey
More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have fled across the border into Turkey, escaping an advance by Islamic State jihadists, Turkish…
500,000 displaced by Ukraine conflict – UN
Fighting in Ukraine has forced over half a million people to flee their homes, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday,…
Ethiopia now Africa’s biggest refugee host
The spiralling crisis in war-ravaged South Sudan has sent nearly 200,000 refugees into Ethiopia, making it Africa’s largest refugee-hosting country,…
UN Chief Bemaons Death Of 82 Africans In Boat Mishap
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Antonio Guterres, has expressed shock at the capsizing of a boat off the…