Refugees

(CNN)Aid groups scrambled on Thursday to reach victims of a powerful earthquake that rocked eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,000 people in an area blighted by poor infrastructure, as the country faces dire economic and hunger crises. The slow response, exacerbated by international sanctions and decades of mismanagement, concerns people…

A Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF) mental health intervention at Tongogara Refugee Camp in Chipinge, Zimbabwe, is building community resilience among those housed at the camp. The intervention, which began in January 2022, is set to run for two years. Nearly 15,000 refugees reside at the camp. Many have…

More than 1,800 Ivorians have taken advantage of an assisted return programme this year, Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has announced. The figure, he said, represented about 96 per cent of those processed since the beginning of accelerated voluntary repatriation in 2021, noting “this is progressing and a clear indication that…

Dmitry Muratov holds a copy of his newspaper, the Novaya Gazeta, after his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal sold for $103.5-million, in New York, on June 20.DAVID DEE DELGADO/Reuters The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night…

WEBWIRE – Monday, June 20, 2022 To date, the Airbnb.org team has connected more than 100,000 refugees and asylum seekers to temporary housing, including more than 50,000 people who have fled the conflict in Ukraine. As we mark World Refugee Day today, Airbnb.org is proud to work with Hosts on…

Actor Ben Stiller met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, during World Refugee Day. Stiller is currently visiting Ukraine in the role of a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Since Saturday, Stiller has traveled through Poland and Ukraine, where he has met with people…

THE long-term support for Ukrainian refugees in Oxfordshire remains uncertain, councillors have been briefed. A presentation outlining how the county has responded to the Ukraine crisis was delivered to Oxfordshire County Council’s Performance and Corporate Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee. The briefing was designed to update the committee on the…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees sold Monday night for $103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel. A spokesperson for Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale, could not confirm the identity of…

To mark World Refugee Day on Monday, Brazilian artist Marina Amaral has colourised 12 black-and-white archive photos from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) dating from the 1940s to the 1980s. A Czech father consoles his son in a camp for displaced persons in Germany in 1949; 10 years…

ROME: The United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Sunday (Jun 19) that refugees in East and West Africa faced smaller food rations due to a surge in demand and insufficient funding. Three-quarters of refugees in East Africa supported by the United Nations' programme have seen their rations reduced by…