The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internationally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) says it will continue to support and improve the livelihood of victims of displacement in the country. Federal Commissioner of the commission, Senator Basheer Mohammed, said this in Abuja, at a valedictory news briefing for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Country […]
Mogadishu – Two UN agencies said on Friday that some 5,087 Somali refugees had so far returned home from Yemen since it started an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) programme in 2017. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that 39 organised departures had taken place from Yemen to Somalia […]
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) country representative, Antonio Canhandula, have said that the Federal Government would recognise 20,485 Cameroonian refugees on a ‘temporary protection basis’. The refugees are temporarily sheltered in the Southeast states of Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Benue and Taraba in the […]
The United Nations Under Secretary-general for peacekeeping operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, has appointed Chikadibia Obiakor to head a special investigation into the killing of Burundian refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Stephane Dujarric, who is the spokesman for the UN secretary-general in New York, announced this in a statement issued Wednesday in New York. […]
U.N. aid agencies are struggling to meet the needs of refugees in eastern Cameroon as multitudes flee the renewed violence in neighboring Central African Republic. The population of the Gado refugee camp has exploded from just 1,000 refugees in January to 25,000 today. Agency reports stated that ,scores of children are being attended to by […]
In response to the United Nations call for investigation into the gruesome murder of Burundian protesters in the democratic republic of Congo, the government has set up enquiry into the killings. Agency reports said that the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday announced that it had opened an inquiry after soldiers fired on Burundian refugees […]
The Canadian Government on Friday said it would provide 119.25 million dollars as funds in response to humanitarian crises in Northeast Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen. This is contained in a statement from Ms Brittany Venhola-Fletcher, Spokesperson, Media Relations, Global Affairs Canada made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Global […]
Despite challenges faced by government in catering for the needs of people displaced by the Boko Haram sect in the North East,the Presidency has disclosed that a fresh batch of 150,000 refugees recently returned to the country. President Muhammadu Buhari made the disclosure on Monday at the Presidential Villa,when he received Phillipo Grandi, the United […]