Sudan: 89,000 civilians have fled El Fasher
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UNHCR fears halt to refugee returns in Africa due to lack of funding
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - More than 42,000 refugees have been able to voluntarily return home this year in West and Central Africa, bringing the total [...] Full text...
CAR: Thousands of civilians seek refuge with the UN on the Sudanese border
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly 5,000 fleeing civilians have gathered in recent days around a UN peacekeepers base in the Central African Republic (CAR), near [...] Full text...
Libya's eastern-based government discusses support for displaced persons
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Libyan government installed in the east, Abdulhadi al-Huwaij, has discussed support [...] Full text...
IOM: More than 1,000 families flee Sudan's besieged El Fasher city
Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced on Sunday that more than a thousand families have fled Sudan's besieged El [...] Full text...
Sudan and eastern-based Libyan govt discuss voluntary return programme for Sudanese refugees
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Officials of Libya's eastern-based government and Sudan have met to discuss modalities of the voluntary return programme for Sudanese expatriates residing [...] Full text...
Surge in flow of Burkinabe refugees into Mali
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - In barely a week, the small town of Koro in central Mali has seen an influx of more than 8,000 Burkinabe [...] Full text...
UNHCR flags Uganda’s refugee funding crisis
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Since the beginning of 2025, 600 refugees have arrived in Uganda each day, bringing the total number of new arrivals to [...] Full text...
Nearly a thousand new Sudanese refugees arrive in Libya
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 1,000 Sudanese have taken refuge in Libya following recent clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support [...] Full text...
Displacement doubles while funding shrinks, warns UNHCR
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - With 13.5 million people displaced by over 13 years of brutal civil conflict, Syria used to represent the largest displacement crisis [...] Full text...
Refugees find hope through legal migration
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Nearly one million refugees from eight countries with high asylum recognition rates were granted entry permits to 38 destination countries between [...] Full text...
Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in [...] Full text...
Refugees in Kenya facing ‘lowest ever’ emergency food rations amid funding crisis
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday that it has been forced to cut food aid to unprecedented lows [...] Full text...
Sudan exodus: Worst situation in decades, UN refugee agency warns
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Tens of thousands of refugees fleeing escalating violence in Sudan continue to escape to Chad at speeds not seen since the [...] Full text...
Sudan: More than 40,000 refugees have flocked to Chad in one month - UNHCR
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - More than 40,000 Sudanese, the majority of them women and children, have fled the ongoing fighting in Sudan to seek refuge [...] Full text...
Mandela’s great-grandson slams Afrikaner 'refugees'
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nelson Mandela’s great-grandson, Mayibuye Mandela, has called on South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs to strip the 49 Afrikaners who [...] Full text...
South Africa's Afrikaner 'refugees' flee to the US
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Forty-nine Afrikaners granted refugee status by the US government departed from OR Tambo International Airport on a chartered aircraft [...] Full text...
Pretoria protests US decision to accept South African 'refugees'
Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa is protesting the decision of the US to process alleged refugees from the country to resettle them in [...] Full text...
UN fund allocates over $4 million to support DRC refugees, Angola cholera outbreak
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two new allocations from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will support DRC refugees in Uganda and efforts to combat [...] Full text...
Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates: UNHCR
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Thousands of exhausted Sudanese refugees continue to flee fighting in search of safety in neighbouring Chad, aid teams said on Tuesday, as [...] Full text...
Funding crisis increases danger and risks for refugees: UNHCR
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday that a worsening funding crisis is placing refugees – who cannot return home [...] Full text...
DR Congo crisis forces refugees to swim for their lives to Burundi
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The number of desperate refugees fleeing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and seeking safety in Burundi continues [...] Full text...
DR Congo crisis: 41,700 refugees have fled violence to Uganda
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Some 41,000 refugees have crossed from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into Uganda since January, many of them having [...] Full text...
Thousands arrive in Burundi within days, fleeing rising tension and violence in eastern DRC: UNHCR
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Between 10,000 and 15,000 people have crossed into Burundi over the last few days, fleeing escalating tension and violence in the [...] Full text...
Chad, Nigeria sign agreement for voluntary refugee repatriation
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The governments of Chad and Nigeria, in collaboration with UN refugee agency, UNHCR, have signed a tripartite agreement to allow the [...] Full text...
More than 125,000 refugees return to Syria in desperate conditions
Damascus, Syria (PANA) - A month since the fall of the Assad regime, more than 125,000 refugees have returned to Syria “full of hope after [...] Full text...
UNHCR urges greater support for people fleeing post-election violence in Mozambique
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is deeply alarmed by the ongoing situation in Mozambique, where post-election unrest has forced thousands to flee [...] Full text...
UN mission, agencies in Libya visit Kufra to address Sudanese refugee situation
Kufra, Libya (PANA) - A high-level United Nations delegation visited Kufra in southeastern Libya on Wednesday to assess the ongoing humanitarian response for Sudanese refugees. Led [...] Full text...
Displacement crisis reaches 123 million, amid ongoing conflicts
New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called for “urgent international support” as the number of forcibly displaced [...] Full text...
Sudan refugee numbers swell as war continues to drive displacement
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The number of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan has surpassed half a million, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, announced on [...] Full text...
Humanitarian charity flags dire conditions for Burkinabe refugees in central Mali amid lean season
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - As the lean season intensifies across Mali, the situation for thousands of people who have fled ongoing violence in Burkina Faso [...] Full text...
UNHCR evacuates 119 refugees from Libya to Italy
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 119 refugees and asylum seekers have been evacuated from Libya to Italy, the Office of the United Nations [...] Full text...
UN supports Sudanese refugees in Libya
New York, US (PANA) - A $5.3 million allocation from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will support some 195,000 vulnerable Sudanese refugees in [...] Full text...
Refugees, migrants face violence, abuse and death on routes across Africa, new data shows
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Refugees and migrants continue to face extreme forms of violence, exploitation and death on sea and on land across Africa as [...] Full text...
Honour the strength, courage of refugees, urges UN chief
New York, US (PANA) - Conflict, climate chaos and upheaval have forced more than 120 million people from their homes including 43.5 million who have [...] Full text...
Rights group asks Egyptian authorities to end campaign of mass arrests and forced returns of Sudanese refugees
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Egyptian authorities must immediately cease the mass arbitrary arrests and unlawful deportations of Sudanese refugees who had crossed the border [...] Full text...
Complementary admissions for refugees reach record highs: UNHCR report
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new report jointly issued by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reveals [...] Full text...
More than 6,000 Sudanese arrive in Libya fleeing conflict in country - IOM
bTripoli, Libya (PANA) - More than 6,000 Sudanese have arrived in Libya since the outbreak of civil war in Sudan last April, according to a [...] Full text...
Sudan war: ‘Fear and loss’ multiply in Sudan exodus: UNHCR
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Over 8.5 million Sudanese have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan since the war between rival militaries erupted last [...] Full text...
New $1.4 billion plan to support South Sudanese refugees
Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and partners on Thursday appealed for $1.4 billion this year to support more than two million South [...] Full text...
Sudanese continuing to flee into Chad: UNHCR
N'djamena, Chad (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, raised increasing concern on Friday that more refugees will cross into Chad from Darfur in the coming [...] Full text...
Brazil donates food, water purifiers to refugees in Ethiopian region
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Brazil has donated food assistance and water purifiers to support refugees and host communities residing in the Gambella region of [...] Full text...
Humanitarian crisis looms in southern Libya due to the war in Sudan
Koufra, Libya (PANA) - There are signs of a humanitarian crisis on the horizon in the towns of southern Libya as thousands of Sudanese flee [...] Full text...
More than 234,000 Burundian refugees repatriated by the end of December 2023
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - More than 234,000 Burundian refugees, almost half of the total supposedly living in exile abroad, returned to their country of origin [...] Full text...
More than 150 illegal migrants evacuated from Tripoli to Rwanda
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 153 illegal migrants have been evacuated in a humanitarian operation to Rwanda as a third country, the Libyan Ministry of [...] Full text...
Global Refugee Forum opens amid ‘crisis of humanity’
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A record 114 million forcibly displaced around the world represents a “crisis of humanity”, UN refugee agency (UNHCR) chief Filippo Grandi [...] Full text...
Over 114 million displaced by war, violence worldwide
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 114 million people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes in the first nine months of this year [...] Full text...
Sudan conflict: World Bank, UNHCR join forces to support Sudanese refugees, host communities in Chad
N’djamena, Chad (PANA) - The World Bank’s Managing Director of Operations, Anna Bjerde, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, are conducting [...] Full text...
‘Hope Away from Home’: UNHCR launches new global campaign
New York, US (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday launched a new global campaign to rally support and firm commitments from nations [...] Full text...
UNHCR urges solidarity with Burkina Faso’s victims of extremist violence
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Civilians fleeing attacks by extremist groups in Burkina Faso must be allowed to shelter in neighbouring countries and not sent back, [...] Full text...