Refugees

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…

IRISH MEPS HAVE criticised Poland for pushing back migrants at its border with Belarus. Their concerns have been voiced as the Polish government erects a barbed border wall with the neighbouring country. It intends to set up patrols and has also suggested it will not host Afghan refugees. One Irish…

It didn’t take long for prominent voices on the political right to begin stoking fears about Afghan citizens fleeing the Taliban’s takeover of the country and coming to the United States. Former President Donald Trump inaccurately claimed that there’s “NO VETTING” of these evacuees, asking, “How many terrorists will Joe…

Published September 8, 2021 11:07pm Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin on  Wednesday said the Philippines took in Afghan refugees weeks after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. "We stay steady where others waver: tonight we welcome Afghan nationals including women and kids seeking refuge," Locsin said on Twitter. Locsin did not say…