Refugees

OTTAWA - Canada has helped 145 Canadian-bound refugees flee Afghanistan overland to Pakistan. A spokesman for Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino says all 145 have Canadian visas and are now being processed in Pakistan and will be on their way to Canada within “days or weeks.” Alexander Cohen says most of…

Melbourne, Australia – Campaigners in Australia are urging the government to release asylum seekers held in immigration detention after at least one COVID-19 case was officially confirmed at a facility in Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, is currently in its sixth lockdown amid a coronavirus outbreak driven by the highly…

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. But the provincial immigration minister said the number of refugees settled in Saskatchewan is entirely out of his hands. Author of the article: Arthur White-Crummey Saskatchewan New Democratic Party candidate Aleana Young speaks to media in Regina on Oct.…

JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST - An Afghan refugee camp here could add another 4,500 residents, according to U.S. Senator Bob Menendez. "They're preparing for the possibility of up to 13,000 (refugees)," Menendez said after touring the South Jersey base Friday with Sen. Cory Booker. Menendez said the base currently holds about 8,500 evacuees,…

A military base, where thousands of unaccompanied children who crossed into the U.S. are being kept, will now also become the temporary homes of almost 10,000 Afghan refugees. The Biden administration gave a media tour on Friday of Fort Bliss military base, where Afghans evacuated out of their country are…

Recently, Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos and Nyesom Wike of Rivers said the VAT collected in their respective states would no more be sent to Abuja. Reacting to the statement, the Gombe State Commissioner for Finance and Economic Creation, Muhammad Magaji said “The realisation was that only Lagos, Rivers and…

The number of Ethiopian refugees at camps in Sudan is dropping, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has confirmed, without stating their whereabouts. UNHCR issued a statement on the matter on Wednesday, two days after the Ethiopian government alleged that some Ethiopian refugee fighters from Sudan had entered…

After thousands of people fled Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover last month, London, Ont.’s Fanshawe College has launched a new scholarship to help Afghan refugees settling in Canada. The new scholarship program announced by the college will provide financial support for five refugees from Afghanistan who wish to complete a…

Pia Lee Brago - The Philippine Star September 10, 2021 | 12:00am “We stay steady where others waver: tonight we welcome Afghan nationals including women and kids seeking refuge,” Locsin tweeted. PCOO MANILA, Philippines — Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. confirmed on Wednesday night the arrival of the first…

A Tennessee congressman who is also an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran sent a letter to the State Department demanding answers after a source informed his office evacuees being held at a Virginia military base have had "free rein" of the campus and have allegedly been leaving the base using…