Refugees

World 20 Aug, 2021 08:10 AM3 minutes to read Kabul airport is reportedly under fire by Taliban fighters who are reportedly blocking people from rescue flights. Video / ShamshadNews Greece's Prime Minister and Turkey's President are to speak on Friday evening to discuss "the latest developments in Afghanistan," the Greek…

Former immigration minister Ian Macphee looks at how Australia took in 55,000 refugees fleeing war-torn Vietnam, and what we can do for those we've left behind in Afghanistan. (Image: WikiMedia) Ian Macphee served as Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs under Malcolm Fraser between 1979 and 1983. By 1982, Australia…

A family taking refuge in a makeshift camp for displaced people near Kabul. Photo / Getty With a Defence Force Hercules now en route to Afghanistan to assist with rescue and evacuation, New Zealand joins a 60-country response to the unfolding calamity. Yet doubt still surrounds just who is eligible…

KAMPALA - Uganda has agreed to temporarily host 2,000 Afghan refugees at the request of the United States. Esther Anyakun, Uganda's state minister for relief, disaster preparedness and refugees, says President Yoweri Museveni told her to make preparations to host 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan. She says Uganda acted at the…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to tell members of parliament that there must be an immediate increase in aid to Afghanistan to avert a humanitarian crisis erupting in the country. Johnson said the aid was to assist the sufferings of Afghanistans due to the crisis in the country…

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden's pledge to evacuate thousands more at-risk Afghans who worked for the U.S. government will run into the cold reality of a fast-closing window of time, insecurity all over Afghanistan and major logistical hurdles. As one U.S. official told Reuters "too many things have to go…

A file photo of Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni.Uganda said on Tuesday it was considering a US request to take in refugees from Afghanistan, where tens of thousands of people are trying to flee after the Taliban seized power. President Yoweri Museveni has “expressed Uganda’s readiness to provide assistance including temporary hosting of…

Updated Tue 8:00 PM THE GOVERNMENT HAS announced €1 million in humanitarian funding to support the people of Afghanistan.  The funding will be provided to the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide urgent support to people in Afghanistan, as well as to those who have fled into neighbouring…

OTTAWA — A 10th planeload of Afghan refugees arrived Tuesday evening in Canada as Justin Trudeau's Liberal government faced fresh criticism and calls for action to save hundreds of former interpreters and their families still stuck in Afghanistan. OTTAWA — A 10th planeload of Afghan refugees arrived Tuesday evening in…

August 15, 2021 9:21 PM ET Vermont Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders called for the U.S. to open its doors to Afghan refugees in a tweet Sunday as the Taliban was in the process of taking over Kabul. Sanders argued that the U.S. effort in Afghanistan has been ineffective, and we…