Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) is to end one of the world's oldest and protracted refugee situations involving some 218,000 B urundians who were exiled in Tanzania since 1972. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Egyptian border forces have arrested 12 Africans attemptin g to cross from Egypt to Israel in another show of force to stem the flow of ill e gal immigration into the Jewish state. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The security situation may have improved in areas of Ken ya hit by post-election violence, but many of the thousands of refugees who fled to Uganda are still too scared to return, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) office h e re said in a news dispatch. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency is seeking US$34 million to realiz e comprehensive solutions for some 218,000 Burundian refugees who fled to Tanzan i a in 1972. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- Leading international rights organization, Amnesty Interna tional, has appealed to the Egyptian government to end the use of "excessive for c e" against African refugees that attempt to cross into Israel from the Sinai Pen i nsula. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The 101 Mauritanian refugees repatriated from Senegal 29 January and settled in the Rosso district will benefit from a special emergency programme worth US$2. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Uganda has said it will recruit qualified Kenya refugees in the country as teachers for nursery and primary schools. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) emergency re sponse team has been deployed to south-east Uganda where the number of Kenyan re f ugees fleeing poll-related violence across the border has risen to 12,000, PANA r eports Wednesday. Full text...

Tigoni- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency has ferried supplies to three dis placement sites outside Nairobi, Kenya to help the nearly 10,000 people evicted f rom their homes in the post-poll violence gripping the country. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The officer in charge of the emergency operations at the United Nations refugees agency, UNHCR, Judy Cheng-Hopkings, arrived here Thursday on a four-day working visit to Burundi, the local office of the agency said in a statement. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian government and the United Nation s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which coordinates the repatriation of t he first group of 113 Mauritanian refugees from Senegal, through the border post of Rosso, have put in place several measures to ensure the success of the operat i on, government sources told PANA Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN refugee agency Wednesday finalised preparations to send to safety more than 300 refugees who have been forced to flee from thei r homes in Nairobi by post-election violence. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Italy has pledged US$ 650,000 to support UN emergency ac tivities in Somalia, humanitarian agency UNHCR announced here Monday in statemen t signed by its senior communications officer Catherine Weibel. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- More than 100,000 Burundian refugees are expected to leave Tanzania before the end of July 2008, following an agreement reached here Tuesday by the representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR), Tanzania and Burundi. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Union of the Forces for Progress (UFP), an o pposition party, Tuesday commended the consultation and mobilization days for th e return of refugees and the settlement of the humanitarian issues in Mauritania. Full text...

Oru- Nigeria (PANA) -- Some five months after the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, officially closed down the camp at Oru in Nigeria's South-west, refugees f rom two African countries have continued to reside in the 17-year-old camp, PANA reported Monday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Participants at the four-day national consultation on Mauritania's refugee problem have suggested three ways to resolve the lingering crisis dating back to the regime of Maaouya Ould Ahmed Taya, who was deposed 3 August 2005. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLA M), a movement in exile, has commended the consensus on the planned return of th o usands of Mauritanian refugees to their country. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Seven Mauritanian political parties have said they will not take part in the forthcoming national consultations on the return of thousands of the country's citizens, who fled to Senegal and Mali after ethnic tensions in 1989. Full text...

Oru- Nigeria (PANA) -- Sierra Leonean refugees in Nigeria have called on their ne w President, Ernest Koroma, to work towards improving the economy, full reconcil i ation and repatriation of those in exile. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The interior ministers of Mauritania and Senegal, and the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Monday signed a tripartite agreement on the conditions for the home-coming of the Mauritanian refugees, a press release from the UNHCR issued here stated. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Mauritanian refugees in Senegal and Mali are preparing f or the national consultation days to be held from Thursday, 15 November, in Noua k chott, capital of Mauritania, one of their coordinators, Mustapha Toure, disclos e d here Sunday In an interview with PANA, Toure said all refugees' organisations, have been inv ited by the Mauritanian government to attend the event aimed at preserving the u n ity of the country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Thousands of newly-displaced Somalis are living in extre mely harsh conditions, a UN inter-agency team that travelled at the weekend to A f gooye, a small town west of Mogadishu, said in a statement here Wednesday. Full text...

refugees Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The governments of Mauritania and Senegal on the one hand and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (HCR) on the other, will sign on 12 November a tripartite agreement expected to serve as a framework for the repatriation of Mauritanian refugees who have been living in Senegal for the past 18 years. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The Field Officer of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Gambia, FiSekou K. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- About 90,000 Somalis have fled Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, to escape the latest round of fighting that followed last week resignation of Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gheedi, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNCHR) said here Thursday. Full text...

Shimelba Camp- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Tyranny is driving Eritreans in hordes out of their country, forcing neighbouring Ethiopia to plan two additional camps for the expected influx of asylum seekers. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian President, Sidi Mohamed Ould Abdallahi, has approved the establishment of an agency that will be in charge of the re-integration of refugees to be repatriated from Senegal and Mali, sources said here Monday. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritania's film maker Abderrahmane Sissako has stressed his commitment to the successful repatriation of the thousands of Mauritanian refugees who have been living in Senegal and Mali since 1989. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has opened a new camp in Buhimba, six kilometers west of Goma, the administrative city of the province of North-Kivu, in a bid to ease congestion in several makeshift camps established in the region of Mugunga. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The World Food Programme (WFP) representative in Gambi a, Mr. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) - – Some 3, 000 Rwandan refugees, who had been living in the western Ugandan Kibati and Isingiro camps, have been repatriated home, a Rwandan government source said here Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Sudanese refugees in Kenya will have restricted access to educational facilities in the various refugee camps in Kenya ahead of the expiry of their asylum status within the next two years, a joint team of experts said here. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has pledged that his country will facilitate the repatriation of Rwandan refugees living in his country, Rwanda's state-run radio reported here Thursday. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) – France will contribute the -largest contingent to the planned force of the European Union (EU) aimed at protecting Sudanese refugee camps in the eastern part of Chad, an official French source affirmed here Tuesday. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- UNHCR representatives in the Central African Republic (CAR) and DR Congo have halted the repatriation of 362 Congolese refugees residing in CAR until a tripartite agreement can be reached for their voluntary return home. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Some 7,292 refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia resident in Nigeria are to be integrated into the country under the terms of a multi-party agreement signed by ECOWAS, UN refugee agency UNHCR and the three countries, an ECOWAS statement said here Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Fresh insecurity concerns in the battered Somali capital of Mogadishu have triggered an exodus of nearly 27,000 people, who are on the move again from neighbouring towns as the domino effect of renewed fighting takes its toll on far-flung towns, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said in statement here Monday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A group of Congolese and Burundi refugees who had been living in Tanzania touched down at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands, over the weekend to a joyful “Goedemorgen" greeting ready to start new lives, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, announced Monday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) - – The Office of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Cameroon Wednesday said it would provide emergency food aid worth US$2. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- The signing of a tripartite agreement for the repatriation of Congolese exiles was postponed indefinitely on Tuesday due to prevailing insecurity in their zone of return, official sources in Kinshasa said. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Association of Mauritanian Refugees in Senegal (CAREMS) has strongly condemned a statement by a UNHCR official putting the number of Mauritanian refugees in Senegal and Mali at 20,000 and 6,000 respectively. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi has warned against the politicization of the return of Mauritanian refugees who have been living in Senegal and Mali for 18 years. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian government has invited all political parties and civil society organisations to join in the debate aimed at defining ways and means of resolving the country's long-standing refugee problem. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The inter-ministerial committee preparing for the return of the Mauritanian refugees in Senegal and Mali has met with several personalities as part of ongoing consultations with all strata of the society, an official source said Wednesday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Tuesday said it had written to the South African Human Rights Commission seeking action concerning the Zimbabwean refugee crisis in South Africa. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian refugee organisations established in Senegal have called for "concrete measures to be taken to strengthen national reconciliation and definitively protect Mauritania from the 1969 tragedy". Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's main opposition the Democratic Alliance has called upon the Department of Home Affairs here to set up a refugee camp near the border in order to assist Zimbabweans fleeing economic hardship in their country. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Members of the inter-ministerial committee in charge of preparing for the return of Mauritanian deportees and refugees, who have been living in Senegal and Mali for 18 years, have travelled to the Senegalese capital city of Dakar for talks with Senegalese authorities, Official sources told PANA here that the delegation, which includes the Minister and presidency secretary general, Yahya Ould Ahmed El Wakf and Interior Minister Yall Zakaria, left Nouakchott Sunday. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- The police in Burundi Friday destroyed the Congolese Banyamulenge refugee camps "irregularly" established in 2001 in the northern outskirts of Bujumbura, Burundi's capital city, national police spokesman, Channel Ntarabaganyi, said. Full text...