Refugees

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing to South Sudan to escape the conflict between Sudan’s military and a rival militia, which has so far killed at least 863 civilians. Last Monday a 7-day ceasefire was agreed.  Many took the opportunity to head to the border with the world’s youngest nation...Read More

Published on May 27th, 2023 at 08:00am EDT Data from Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) shows that the backlog of applications in inventory, across all lines of business, is now just slightly over 800,000. The numbers are current as of April 30. There are 2,006,000 million applications in inventory…

Published on May 26th, 2023 at 03:45pm EDT Updated on May 29th, 2023 at 08:39pm EDT Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has just announced that it will accept language test results from four new tests for Student Direct Stream (SDS) applicants. IRCC will begin to accept test results from…

Islam is photographed in Istanbul after his close friend Saleh Sabika was killed, allegedly by a co-worker. (Alice Martins)After a campaign marked by anti-immigrant appeals, Syrians worry about their future in the country Updated May 26, 2023 at 2:55 p.m. EDT|Published May 26, 2023 at 1:06 a.m. EDT ISTANBUL, Turkey…

by Justin Hollander, Karen Jacobsen, Alexandra Naegele and Christopher Schwalm, Tufts University “To support refugees and returnees, attention is needed in the urban areas where they almost always end up: informal settlements,” the authors write. Here, in 2014 refugees from South Sudan in Ethiopia. Credit: Shutterstock The tragic war underway…

Published on May 26th, 2023 at 06:00am EDT Updated on May 26th, 2023 at 09:59pm EDT Today, May 26th 2023, Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, made an announcement about improvements to strengthen family class immigration in Canada. The new measures include: Faster temporary resident visa (TRV) processing…

ISTANBUL —  In the mobile game “Zafer Tourism,” players catapult Syrian refugees scurrying into Turkey onto trucks to take them back from where they came. “Protect your borders. Don’t let them pass,” says a description on the Google Play store. The game, whose name refers to an anti-migrant campaign by the…

Gaga, Chad CNN  —  Mastiura Ishakh Yousouff is only 22 but has been internally displaced in Sudan’s Darfur region for most of her life. But this is new territory even for someone who hasn’t known a permanent home – a refugee camp in eastern Chad, one of the world’s most…

Johannesburg CNN  —  The most wanted fugitive in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has been arrested in Paarl, South Africa after decades on the run. Fulgence Kayishema is accused of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 Tutsi refugees – women, men, children and the elderly – at Nyange Catholic…

ANKARA — As Turkey prepares to hold its first ever runoff vote to elect its next president on Sunday, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu are locked in a statistical tie, a new Al-Monitor/Premise poll found, while a significant portion of voters remain undecided. The poll…