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UN says 15 dead, 400 missing in Rohingya camp fire

A fire at a Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh March 22, 2021. /Reuters At least 15 people have been killed in a massive fire that ripped through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bang

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43 Africans drown off Libya in first Mediterranean shipwreck of 2021

At least 43 West African migrants trying to reach Europe drowned off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, after their boat capsized in rough seas, in the first shipwreck of 2021 in the central Mediterranea

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UN concerned for safety of refugees following deadly Boko Haram attack

FILE PHOTO: Smoldering ashes are seen on the ground in Badu near Maiduguri on July 28, 2019, after an attack by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria. /Getty Images The United

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Second ever refugee Paralympic team to participate in Tokyo

VCG image The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) will send a refugee team to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games that are scheduled to be held in August-September 2021.IPC confirmed on Wedne

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UNHCR resumes evacuation flight out of Libya

A UNHCR official attends to some of the 153 evacuees before their flight from Libya to Niger on Thursday, 15 October 2020. /Photo courtesy: UNHCR Libya. The United Nations refugee agency has r

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UN agency provides cash to help repair homes after Beirut's blasts

BEIRUT, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched a cash assistance program aiming to help 11,500 families for repairing homes with 600 U.S. dollars each

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UNHCR: More than 1,000 immigrants rescued by Libyan Coast Guard

27 August 2019, —: The rescue ship “Eleonore”sails on the Mediterranean with around 100 migrants on board. The "Eleonore”took in the migrants on 26.08.2019 off the Libyan coast. (Aerial photograp

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UN Refugee Agency UNHCR awarded the Olympic Cup 2019

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the Olympic Cup 2019 to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on Friday. Fillippo Grandi, UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, accepted the Olympic Cup as U

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UN Refugee Agency UNHCR awarded the Olympic Cup 2019

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the Olympic Cup 2019 to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on Friday. Fillippo Grandi, UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, accepted the Olympic Cup as U

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UNHCR says over 46,000 refugees, asylum seekers registered in Libya

TRIPOLI, LIBYA – FEBRUARY 14: A group of deportee illegal immigrants wait before boarding to a plane, heading to Nigeria during their deportation at Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli, Libya