Refugees

Published on May 30th, 2023 at 08:00am EDT After unveiling a new design for its passports on May 10, the Government of Canada has now announced that Canadians eligible for simplified passport renewals will be able to complete this process online starting in the fall. In an announcement from Immigration,…

Arab News en Francais celebrates three years of building bridges between France and the Arab world Dubai: On July 14, 2020, while the Eiffel Tower in Paris was illuminated by fireworks for the French national day, the logo of Arab News en Francais appeared on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. This…

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JUBA: Sudan’s pro-democracy movement has faced innumerable challenges and setbacks since the Sudanese Armed Forces and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces plunged the nation into a violent power struggle in April, triggering a major humanitarian emergency. Driven by a desire for peace, representative governance and social justice, pro-democracy activists…

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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…