UNHCR appeals for Mozambicans fleeing violence to be given access to asylum in Tanzania

19 may 2021 - 11:51:25

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has expressed deep concern by ongoing reports of people fleeing Mozambique’s volatile Cabo Delgado [...] Full text...

Charity organization helps UNHCR workers to assist refugees

11 may 2021 - 19:19:32

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sudan, has welcomed an International Humanitarian Partnerships’ basecamp donation [...] Full text...

UNHCR receives US$1.66 million from Korea for refugees in Uganda

06 may 2021 - 10:58:02

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has received US$1.666 million from the Republic of Korea in 2021 to support refugees [...] Full text...

Denmark considering sending asylum seekers to Rwanda - Amnesty International

05 may 2021 - 21:40:21

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International has opposed plans by Denmark to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, calling the move “unconscionable and potentially unlawful." Danish authorities have [...] Full text...

Kenya to close down Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps 'by June 2020'

30 april 2021 - 06:31:25

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) -  Kenya has reiterated that it will close down the sprawling Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps by June 2020. “We are serious about completing [...] Full text...

UNHCR chief urges more support for Burundians returning home

30 april 2021 - 05:55:21

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has praised progress made towards helping refugees find long-term solutions in the heart [...] Full text...

UN refugee chief calls on international community to stand with DR Congo

23 april 2021 - 11:48:14

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Friday called for stepped up international support and solidarity with the Democratic [...] Full text...

More refugees arrive in Chad following recent clashes in Central African Republic

20 april 2021 - 10:51:44

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Recent clashes between government forces and rebel groups in northern Central African Republic (CAR) have forced more than 2,000 refugees to [...] Full text...

Burundi refugees in Tanzania living in fear: UN rights experts

13 april 2021 - 18:02:34

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The rights of refugees and asylum seekers who have fled Burundi for Tanzania must be respected, experts appointed by the UN [...] Full text...

West Darfur clashes force nearly 2,000 refugees into Chad: UNHCR

13 april 2021 - 11:45:50

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Recent intercommunal clashes in El Geneina, in Sudan’s West Darfur State, have forced 1,860 refugees to cross into neighbouring Chad in [...] Full text...

Ethiopian Crisis: UNHCR says it has reached destroyed camps in northern Tigray

26 march 2021 - 11:20:24

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee agency said on Friday that it has gained access to the Shimelba and Hitsats refugee camps in Ethiopia’s [...] Full text...

Kenya to shut 500,000 population refugee camp after new ultimatum

24 march 2021 - 20:04:17

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya has issued a final 14-day ultimatum to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to provide a roadmap on the permanent shutdown [...] Full text...

5,000 Nigerian refugees return from Cameroon

10 march 2021 - 16:05:05

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – There was joy on Wednesday as 5,000 Nigerians who fled to Cameroon due to the Boko Haram/Islamic State in West Africa [...] Full text...

UNHCR to relocate thousands of Central African Republic refugees to safer locations

02 march 2021 - 12:32:36

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is working to relocate thousands of Central African Republic (CAR) refugees away [...] Full text...

UNHCR says surging violence in Nigeria drives displacement to Niger

02 march 2021 - 12:16:42

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says it is alarmed at surging violence in north-west Nigeria which has fuelled displacement into neighbouring [...] Full text...

WFP, UNHCR appeal for funding for over three million refugees hit by ration cuts in East Africa

02 march 2021 - 12:06:17

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday appealed for US$266 million to [...] Full text...

UNHCR seeks urgent access to detained asylum-seekers in Tanzania

28 february 2021 - 16:28:25

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says it is deeply concerned by a series of messages of distress it has [...] Full text...

UNHCR seeks US$164 million for displaced persons in Central African Republic

28 february 2021 - 16:24:21

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has launched a US$164 million appeal to provide life-saving assistance and protection to nearly [...] Full text...

127 Burundian refugee households repatriated from neighboring Tanzania

24 february 2021 - 16:57:55

Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Some 127 Burundian refugee households returned home on Tuesday from neighboring Tanzania where they had taken shelter from the violent electoral [...] Full text...

Thousands of Ethiopians seek asylum in Sudan’s Blue Nile State - UNHCR

24 february 2021 - 07:09:27

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Several thousand people fleeing escalating violence in Ethiopia’s Benishangul Gumuz region have sought safety in Sudan’s Blue Nile State over the [...] Full text...

UNHCR appeals for over $220 million in ‘crucial’ support for Burundi refugees

17 february 2021 - 06:20:09

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An urgent appeal for $222.6 million was made on Tuesday by the UN refugee agency and partners to assist more than [...] Full text...

UNHCR appeals for access as CAR displacement soars

12 february 2021 - 11:09:57

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is appealing for humanitarian access to reach tens of thousands of people in dire need after [...] Full text...

Tens of thousands of displaced live in appalling conditions in CAR - UNHCR

29 january 2021 - 14:00:25

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)- As insecurity in the Central African Republic (CAR) has uprooted, in less than two months, more than 200,000 people who are [...] Full text...

UNHCR warns asylum under attack at Europe’s borders

28 january 2021 - 11:46:50

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Alarmed at the increasing frequency of expulsions and pushbacks of refugees and asylum-seekers at Europe’s land and sea borders, UNHCR, the [...] Full text...

UNHCR calls for more action to save lives of refugees on routes towards the Mediterranean

28 january 2021 - 11:30:51

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has urged the international community do more to save lives of refugees taking risky routes towards [...] Full text...

UNHCR calls on States to offer places as refugee resettlement hits record low

25 january 2021 - 13:25:08

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Despite an estimated 1.44 million refugees in urgent need of resettlement globally, only 22,770 were resettled through UNHCR, the UN Refugee [...] Full text...

Ethiopian Crisis: Sudan says more Ethiopian refugees arriving in Blue Nile State

24 january 2021 - 13:10:17

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - An official of the Sudanese Commission for Refugees in the Blue Nile State, Al-Jaili Al-Hindi Al-Sharif, says that more than 400 [...] Full text...

UNHCR: Grim milestone as Sahel violence displaces two million inside their countries

24 january 2021 - 06:08:58

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for an end to the unrelenting violence in Africa’s Sahel which has now displaced [...] Full text...

Displacement in CAR reaches 120,000, as another deadly attack leaves one UN peacekeeper dead

16 january 2021 - 09:27:45

Bangui, CAR (PANA) - Worsening election violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has forced 120,000 people from their homes, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, [...] Full text...

'UNHCR concerned about thousands of Central Africans fleeing election violence'

08 january 2021 - 11:48:49

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said on Friday that it is concerned that violence and insecurity surrounding the 27 December general [...] Full text...

Ethiopian Crisis: Influx of refugees into eastern Sudan continues

06 january 2021 - 10:43:21

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The influx of Ethiopian refugees from the troubled Tigray region into the Eastern border with Sudan has continued with at least [...] Full text...

Ethiopian Crisis: UNHCR relocating Ethiopian refugees arriving in Sudan

05 january 2021 - 11:53:04

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said on Tuesday that together with the Sudan’s Commission for Refugees (COR), it has continued to [...] Full text...

Libyan Coast Guard rescued 11,265 illegal migrants in 2020: UNHCR

01 january 2021 - 12:04:31

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 11,265 illegal migrants were brought back to Libya by the Libyan Coast Guard under the Government of National [...] Full text...

Ethiopian Crisis: UN agencies deliver lifeline food assistance to 25,000 Eritrean refugees in Tigray region

28 december 2020 - 11:31:04

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Eritrean refugees in two camps in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia received a month’s worth of food supplies through a joint delivery [...] Full text...

UN food assistance programme in Uganda hit as COVID-19 dries funding

23 december 2020 - 10:47:33

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) will have to further reduce food rations and cash assistance for more than 1.2 million [...] Full text...

Ethiopian Crisis: UNHCR, partners urgently seek US$156 million to support refugees fleeing Tigray region

22 december 2020 - 11:03:05

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, together with 30 humanitarian partners, is on Tuesday releasing an urgent appeal for US$156 million to [...] Full text...

UNHCR says new safety measures allow Malian refugees to return to camp in Burkina Faso

21 december 2020 - 12:47:05

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency - UNHCR -  has helped 3,000 Malian refugees move back into Burkina Faso’s Goudoubo refugee camp, [...] Full text...

UNHCR says more than 500,000 displaced in Mozambique’s conflict-torn north

18 december 2020 - 11:16:37

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has expressed deep concern over the rising number of civilians displaced in the northern parts of [...] Full text...

UNHCR makes supplementary COVID-19 appeal to meet exceptional refugee needs in 2021

18 december 2020 - 10:58:47

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on Friday released its supplementary appeal for 2021 Covid response seeking an additional $455 million.  While most [...] Full text...

Ethiopian Crisis: UN refugee agency calls for ‘unfettered access’ to Tigray

12 december 2020 - 07:10:53

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Amidst “disturbing reports” from Ethiopians fleeing to Sudan, the UN refugee agency called on Friday for “unfettered access to Tigray in [...] Full text...

Ethiopian Crisis: Ethiopia 'safely' returning Eritrean refugees to their camps

11 december 2020 - 17:07:28

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Government of Ethiopia says it is "safely" returning Eritrean refugees to their respective camps where they can have access [...] Full text...

Number of forcibly displaced people soars above 80 million: UNHCR

10 december 2020 - 08:23:21

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of people forcibly displaced around the world has doubled in the past decade and is estimated to have passed [...] Full text...

HCR gives financial aid to follow-up, orientation centres for refugees in Tunisia

03 december 2020 - 23:55:19

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The UN High-Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Thursday agreed to give a 100,000 USD financing to support to three follow-up and social [...] Full text...

Donors pledge record US$932 million to UN refugee agency

03 december 2020 - 11:52:32

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Donor governments on Wednesday pledged a record US$932 million to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, for next year’s activities at its [...] Full text...

UN refugee agency appeals for $147 million to support thousands of Ethiopians fleeing to Sudan

30 november 2020 - 19:13:11

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has launched an appeal for US$147 million to support as many as 100,000 people [...] Full text...

Sudanese PM vows to protect Ethiopian refugees streaming into Sudan

27 november 2020 - 18:51:37

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- The head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) visited refugee camp near the Sudanese borders with Ethiopia where over [...] Full text...

79 new refugees evacuated from Libya by UNHCR

20 november 2020 - 17:39:52

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A group of 79 refugees and asylum seekers were evacuated from Libya to a safer area in Rwanda via the emergency [...] Full text...

Ethiopia's vulnerable population flees Tigray conflict zone into Sudan

20 november 2020 - 10:50:08

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Pregnant women, separated families and sick elderly people are among thousands of refugees continuing to arrive daily into Sudan from [...] Full text...

UN official narrates heartbreaking stories of refugees fleeing Ethiopia violence

20 november 2020 - 06:39:06

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A senior UN humanitarian official in Sudan has recounted moving testimony from refugees who are crossing the border from Ethiopia in [...] Full text...

Refugee resettlement numbers fall to lowest in two decades: UNHCR

19 november 2020 - 20:25:51

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Refugee resettlement numbers will be at a “record low” this year, with only 15,425 people resettled in the first nine months [...] Full text...