Refugees

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…

114,000 Ukrainian Refugees Find Shelter in 2022 (Image: Getty) UK immigration figures have revealed the number of Ukrainian refugees who sought safety in the United Kingdom during the year 2022 numbered a total of 114,000. However, a portion of those who arrived under the Government backed Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme and…

An Egyptian volunteer delivers free meals to a family of Sudanese refugees hosted at an Egyptian home in the village of Wadi Karkar near Aswan - Copyright AFP/File Khaled DESOUKI Mohamed Abouelenen with Sofiane Alsaar in Cairo From the scorching summer heat to war profiteers and bureaucratic foot-dragging, Sudanese fleeing…

Prosecutors in Nepal on Wednesday charged 30 people, including two former cabinet ministers over allegations that they collected large amounts of money from Nepali nationals, promising to help them relocate overseas as Bhutanese refugees. The District Attorney's Office here has filed a 224-page charge-sheet at the Kathmandu District Court. Former…

Published on May 24th, 2023 at 12:45pm EDT Updated on May 24th, 2023 at 12:54pm EDT IRCC has invited candidates in the thirteenth Express Entry draw of 2023. Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) issued 4,800 invitations to apply (ITAs) to candidates in an all-program draw. Candidates required a minimum…

As the Government of Canada works to resettle at least 40,000 Afghan refugees by the end of 2023, Helmets to Hardhats (H2H) is collaborating with Aman Lara and local building trades unions across Canada to provide recently resettled Afghan nationals with opportunities in the skilled trades. For many Canadian newcomers,…