The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday reported that some 16,000 Nigerian refugees have fled to the Far North region of neighboring Cameroon over the weekend to escape clashes in northeast Nigeria between regional military forces and insurgents.
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday urged the authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the UN stabilization mission to boost their respective capacities to stem the violence in the long- troubled, resource-rich area known as "the triangle of death," as it is deeply concerned about the "catastrophic" humanitarian situation in Katanga province.
UN Refugee Agency steps up aid to help 130,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey
Only political and diplomatic methods could settle the crisis in Syria and stabilize the situation in the region as a whole, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
UN agencies have been working swiftly to cope with a sudden massive influx of Syrian refugees into northern Iraq, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.
While refusing to "comment on particular cases" in relations to the NSA leaker Edward Snowden, a United Nation refugees official in Hong Kong's spokeswoman said no asylum will stay in Hong Kong for good.
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