Refugees

Gordon Brown has warned that a second or third wave of coronavirus infection could emanate from poor countries with undeveloped health systems, saying the risks can be controlled only by coordinated … Read More

People wait outside an immigration office in Berlin.Credit: Adam Berry/Getty Marteza Hasani fled Afghanistan in 2005 when he was six years old. During the war there, he found the beheaded body of his father, who had been killed by the Taliban, in front of his family home. That was the…

People wait outside an immigration office in Berlin.Credit: Adam Berry/Getty Marteza Hasani fled Afghanistan in 2005 when he was six years old. During the war there, he found the beheaded body of his father, who had been killed by the Taliban, in front of his family home. That was the…

Auhorities have so far reported no coronavirus cases in the Aegean island camps for migrants and refugees Greece will extend to May 21 a coronavirus lockdown imposed since March on camps for migrants and refugees, authorities have said. "The coronavirus measures of confinement for those living in migrant camps and…

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By Ruma PaulDHAKA (Reuters) - The Bangladesh navy has rescued around 280 Rohingya Muslims from the Bay of Bengal, towing their stranded boat to an island where they will be quarantined as a precaution against the coronavirus, coast guard and naval officials said on Friday.The rickety wooden boat was spotted…

More boats carrying Rohingya refugees have arrived in waters off Bangladesh. Some of the refugees have been transferred to a small island, Bhasan Char, described by rights activists as a "dangerously flood-prone island without adequate healthcare". Al Jazeera's Mohammed Jamjoom reports. SOURCE: Al Jazeera News Read More

Scrambling to tackle COVID-19 in camps across the Middle East, the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees said it only has enough cash to operate until the end of May because of American funding cuts. In 2018 President Donald Trump's administration halted annual payments of $360m to the United Nations Relief…

Rights groups and aid agencies have raised concerns after dozens of stranded Rohingya refugees, who landed at Bangladesh's southern coast at the weekend, were sent to an inhabitable island in the Bay of Bengal. Authorities said the 29 Rohingya were relocated to the controversial Bhasan Char island late on Saturday to prevent…

Dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded at sea for weeks have been relocated to a controversial flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh officials said Sunday.Bangladesh last year constructed facilities for 100,000 people on Bhashan Char, a muddy silt islet in the cyclone-prone coastal belt, saying they needed to take…