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...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Some 553 Congolese refugees were repatriated from Gabon in August, according to a monthly report on the voluntary repatriation published Thursday in Brazzaville by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Tanzania government has reaffirmed its intention to close down its last camp for refugees from neighbouring Burundi this year. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Professor Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA), will Friday visit the refugee camps in Kenya, to address the urgent needs of women affected by the famine in the Horn of Africa.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Thursday launched a campaign to highlight the plight of up to 12 million stateless people worldwide who are denied basic rights, including access to jobs, housing, education and health care. Full text...

Lumbala-Nguimbo, Angola (PANA) - Some 78 Angolan refugees returned home from Zambia Thursday, according to the Angolan Press Agency, ANGOP.Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 178,899 Ivorian refugees remain in 13 West African states as at the end of July, despite the gradual restoration of peace to the country, which was wracked by a prolonged post-election crisis that ended only when former President Laurent Gbagbo was arrested in April. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Commission President Jean Ping was expected to lead a high-profile delegation to visit the Dollo Ado refugee camp in Southern Ethiopia Thursday, as part of efforts to raise awareness on the drought and famine crises that has hit the Horn of Africa. Full text...

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. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, has allocated US$2,121,502 to boost a joint UN system humanitarian response to the Cote d’Ivoire refugee situation in Ghana. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese minister of Social Affairs, Mrs Emilienne Raoul, announced on Monday that US$660,000 has been released to facilitate the repatriation of Congolese nationals who have been living in Gabon since the 1997 Congolese civil war. Full text...

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.Full text...

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. Full text...

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

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Antonio Guterres, on Friday welcomed the decision by Kenya to open a new camp set up to ease congestion in the Dadaab refugee settlement, where an influx of people fleeing drought and conflict in Somalia has swelled the refugee population to nearly 380,000. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – International charity Christian Aid on Wednesday called on the Kenyan government to open a refugee camp that is currently standing empty in order to cope with the 1,400 new arrivals daily, mostly women and children, fleeing drought and conflict in neighbouring Somalia. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - With the worst drought in 60 years gripping huge swathes of east Africa, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has toured the vast Dadaab refugee camp in north eastern Kenya. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday called for urgent international assistance for Somali refugees who are trooping into Ethiopia. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The rate of the influx of Somali refugees into neighbouring countries is three times more than the rate considered emergency level, said Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on Friday. Full text...

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

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - As thousands of Somali refugees continue streaming across the border into Kenya, the mounting pressure on the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex saw violence erupt there this week. Full text...

Oru, Nigeria (PANA) - Refugees at the Oru camp, South West Nigeria, are lashing out at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the country's National Commission For Refugees (NCFR) for abandoning them to their fate with no form of assistance particularly in their hours need. Full text...

Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger Minister of Interior, Abdou Labo, Monday welcomed the "determination" and "courage" of refugees in the country, assuring them of the constant support of his countrymen to make their stay more enjoyable.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Monday that an estimated 80 per cent of the world’s refugees now live in developing countries and urged the richer countries to address the deep imbalance. Full text...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The National Forum of Human Rights Organizations (FONADH) has charged the Mauritanian government to proceed with the repatriation of citizens who have taken refuge in other countries, a statement issued Monday in Nouakchott, on the occasion of the celebration of Africa Refugee Day, said. Full text...

Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Brazil has donated 200 tonnes of maize for DR Congo refugees in Congo's northern department of Likouala.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday that on-going insecurity in some areas in Cote d'Ivoire was preventing about 300,000 displaced civilians from returning to the country, two months after the end of the post-election crisis.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday the number of people displaced as a result of conflict in the disputed Sudanese Abyei region has risen to nearly 100,000. Full text...

Ulyankulu, Western Tanzania (PANA) – There are some signs of nervousness as members of the Nkindo pastoral community gather under a mango tree to weigh whether or not to break up and relocate in various directions, finally losing their four decades of closeness.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Welcoming Burundi’s commitment to the pursuit of lasting solutions to its refugee problems, the Tripartite Commission on the Situation of Barundi Refugees in Tanzania has decided to kick-start what is likely to be the last mass repatriation operation on 15 September, 2011, and close their camp at Mtabila in the northwestern Kasulu District by 31 December, 2011. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) ) – Prospects of repatriation can make camp-based Congolese refugees in northwestern Tanzania break down "in cold sweat", at least for the time being.Full text...

Kasulu, Western Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania is gradually unveiling ambitious plans for its land use that could spark an agricultural and industrial boom in the western regions, but are likely to have important implications for its newly-naturalized citizens and refugees from neighbouring countries. Full text...

Kuito, Angola (PANA) - At least 60.000 Angolan refugees willing to return home are expected to be repatriated before the end of the year, according to Welfare and Social Reintegration Minister João Baptista Kussumua. Full text...