Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - About 3.5 million people are affected by the food security and nutrition crisis in Mali, with 175,000 children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition in the West African nation and 385,000 more suffering from moderate acute malnutrition, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest situation report on Mali. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Friday appealed for urgent monetary assistance to help transport thousands of stranded South Sudanese from the north to the south, as a deadline agreed upon for their relocation is approaching. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Mr. Ali Al-Za’tari, has expressed concern about the plight of South Sudanese people stranded at the Kosti way station, amid reports that they and all international organizations working there will have to leave Kosti by 5 May, 2012, the UN said in a statement issued here Tuesday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has appealed to the government of Sudan to give South Sudanese stranded in Kosti, central Sudan, more time to prepare themselves for a return home in dignity. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The Zambian government has announced that the refugee status of Angolan refugees in Zambia, who fled Angola as a result of the armed conflicts between 1961 and 2002, will cease on 30 June, 2012. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Some 35,000 people have been displaced by the recent fighting near the border between Sudan and South Sudan, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed ''deep concern'' about the deteriorating political and security situation in Mali, where thousands of people continue to flee their homes due to fighting between government forces and Tuareg rebels in the country’s north. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan authorities have been urged not to return refugees to Somalia because of ongoing fighting and abuses against civilians in areas controlled by Kenyan forces and allied militias. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Tuesday expressed concern over recurring fighting near the Yida refugee settlement in South Sudan, close to the border with Sudan, saying the clashes are putting residents of the camp at risk. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said that more than 3,000 civilians fleeing violence in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have entered Uganda since the beginning of this year. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said that Mauritania and Burkina Faso continue to receive large numbers of Malian refugees fleeing Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Thursday recommenced the organised Angolan voluntary repatriation from Zambia, with 37 refugees repatriating to Angola’s Huambo Province on one flight from Mongu Airport in Western part of Zambia. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday appealed for US$35.6 million with which to respond to the growing humanitarian crisis resulting from the renewed fighting in northern Mali between government forces and Tuareg rebels. Full text...

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. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has deployed its workers to assist some 20,000 people forced to flee fighting between government troops and Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Tens of thousands of Malians, fleeing violence in the northern part of their country, have been streaming into Niger since 26 January, according to the latest newsletter from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency said Friday it was alarmed by recent reports that Congolese civilians have been tortured and killed by armed groups entering camps for the internally displaced in the volatile province of North Kivu.Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has recommended to countries of asylum, including Zambia, to invoke the refugee status of Rwandan refugees who fled between 1959 and 31 December 1998, the agency said in a statement issued here. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN High Commission for Refugee (UNHCR) on Wednesday Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International Organization of Migration (IOM) has said that, in cooperation with partners, it provided transport assistance, over the last eight months, to 100,000 Somalis fleeing to Kenya and Ethiopia because of the war and famine in their country. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday condemned two air raids near a refugee transit centre in South Sudan, saying 14 people went missing during the attacks and that a teenage boy was injured. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency is concerned about fresh violence in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has forced more than 100,000 civilians to flee their homes since November. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN refugee agency chief António Guterres has ended a visit to Sudan, hailing efforts towards lasting solutions for thousands of long-staying refugees in eastern Sudan. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has called on the international community to provide "massive" humanitarian support for South Sudan, which faces major forced displacement crises. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Somaliland authorities to cease forcibly returning refugees and asylum seekers to possible persecution in Ethiopia. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Donor governments Saturday pledged US$ 482 million for the UN refugee agency's (UNHCR) operations in 2012 to help forcibly displaced and stateless people worldwide.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Donor governments on Friday pledged US$ 482 million for the UN refugee agency’s operations in 2012 to help forcibly displaced and stateless people worldwide. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The WFP has started a helicopter service linking the refugee camps in Dolo Ado with the town of Gode, in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, a critical connection that will keep heavy rainfall from disrupting humanitarian services to the camps. Full text...

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. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency on Friday expressed concern about the security of thousands of refugees in South Sudan border areas as fighting in neighbouring Sudan continues to drive civilians across the frontier. Full text...

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. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - A total of 252 Angolans repatriated from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as part of the process of voluntary repatriation, were resettled in their areas of origin, PANA learnt Thursday from an official source here. Full text...

Mbanza Kongo, Angola (PANA) - The first group of Angolan citizens living as refugees in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Friday arrived in the Angolan city of Mbanza Kongo, Zaire Province, in the ambit of a recent voluntary repatriation process.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Friday said it provided emergency assistance to thousands of displaced Somalis, who were affected Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Friday that aerial bombings in Sudan’s Blue Nile state were driving a new wave of refugees into Ethiopia, with nearly 2,000 arriving in the last four days alone. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The voluntary repatriation of Angolan refugees in Congo would begin on 3 November, according to a communiqué of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (HCR) released on Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The deteriorating humanitarian situation in Somalia forced almost 320,000 Somalis to flee their country so far this year, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said Friday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Thursday that more funds are needed to provide vital aid to the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Cote d’Ivoire. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The National Human Rights Organizations Forum (FONADH), a group of 15 Mauritanian NGOs, has called for a tripartite agreement between the governments of Mauritania and Mali and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for the repatriation of Mauritanian refugees in Mali. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday signed an agreement in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, for the voluntary repatriation of Ivorian refugees in Ghana. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres warned Monday that an increasingly complex international environment was making it harder to find solutions for the world’s over 43 million refugees, internally-displaced and stateless people. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A fresh wave of air strikes in Sudan's Blue Nile State since last Wednesday has sent increasing numbers of refugees fleeing into Ethiopia. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The relative calm recently witnessed in the region of Darfur has encouraged thousands of internally-displaced persons and refugees to embark on the journey back home, according to a PANA report here. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN agencies and their aid partners on Tuesday appealed for US$ 18.3 million to help tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees, who fled to western Ethiopia to escape violence in Sudan’s Blue Nile state.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Deaths amongst the Somalia's new arrival refugees at the various camps in Ethiopia have reduced drastically over the past weeks as a result of improved feeding programmes initiated by relief agencies, a UN bulletin revealed. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Saturday said more than 8,000 civilians have fled to Republic of South Sudan to escape fighting in the state of Southern Kordofan in neighbouring Sudan. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - An influx of refugees from the Southern Blue Nile State of Sudan into Ethiopia is threatening to push aid agencies into a crisis point as fighting continues between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and SPLM/North. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN agencies are mobilizing to assist some 20,000 people who have fled the fighting in Sudan’s Blue Nile state and arrived in neighbouring Ethiopia, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement Tuesday. Full text...

Menongue, Angola (PANA) - No fewer than 230 Angolans who lived in the neighbouring Zambia as refugees returned home at the weekend through the south-eastern Kuando Kubango province, under the organised volunteer repatriation process, PANA reported from here Monday. Full text...