Refugees

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh is moving 3,000-4,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote Bay of Bengal island over the next two days, two officials said on Sunday, despite concerns about the risk of storms and floods lashing the site. Dhaka has relocated around 7,000 to Bhasan Char island since…

News Sean Douglas Thursday 24 December 2020File photo of Venezuelans onboard a pirogue making its way to Los Iros beach in TT - Lincoln HolderTHE United States government has donated US$11 million to local NGOs and international organisations to help Venezuelan migrants in Trinidad and Tobago, said a post on…

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A handout picture provided by Sudan's Foreign Media Council shows Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok meeting with his Ethiopian counterpart in Khartoum on 25 August 2020. Handout / AFP / Sudan'S Foreign Media Council Accompanied by a large security delegation, Abdalla Hamdok said he looked forward to "productive discussions on political,…

OTTAWA -- Ali Mansour spent his first two weeks in Canada watching through a window as winter give way to spring and squirrels ran across the lawn. As one of the last refugees to arrive in Canada before the border closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it still felt like…

OTTAWA — Ali Mansour spent his first two weeks in Canada watching through a window as winter give way to spring and squirrels ran across the lawn. OTTAWA — Ali Mansour spent his first two weeks in Canada watching through a window as winter give way to spring and squirrels…

In what appears to be an unprecedented move, the Ethiopian government has taken control of a refugee processing center run by the International Organization for Migration, a UN organization, in the country’s capital city, Addis Ababa. Whether IOM willingly ceded the facility, or whether it was seized by force, is…

News Jada Loutoo Friday 11 December 2020File photo: A policewoman escorts Venezuelans who arrived on pirogues at Los Iros, Erin in November. PHOTO BY LINCOLN HOLDER - THE INTER-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) wants details of the conditions at the state-controlled quarantine facility at the heliport in Chaguaramas, as…

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency said on Friday that any forced return of Eritrean refugees currently in Ethiopia back to their homeland would be "absolutely unacceptable"."These are indeed disturbing reports that we are receiving as well," Babar Baloch, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said…