Refugees
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Clean water, sanitation vast challenges as Bangladesh copes with 607,000 new refugees
Nov 5, 2017News Hour Since 25 August, over 607,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar. Although the number of new arrivals is now slowing, people continue to arrive in the makeshift settlements of Cox’s... -
Two months on from outbreak of violence, number of rohingya refugees in Bangladesh reaches 817,000
Oct 28, 2017News Hour A total of 817,000 Rohingya refugees are now living in the southern most district of Bangladesh. Since 25 August, some 604,000 people have crossed the border, having fled violence in Myanmar. This is in... -
15,000 eritrean refugees relocated in Ethiopia by UN Migration agency
Oct 21, 2017News Hour IOM, the UN Migration Agency has relocated over 15,000 Eritrean refugees in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia since 1 March 2017. In close partnership with the Government of Ethiopia’s Administration for Refugee and Returnee... -
Violence in Myanmar driving up to 12,000 Rohingya refugee children into Bangladesh every week
Oct 20, 2017News Hour: Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya refugee children who have fled to southern Bangladesh since late August, including some 10,000 who crossed from Myanmar over the past few... -
US supports WFP to provide food assistance to Refugees
Aug 11, 2017News Hour The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$1 million contribution from the United States to support vulnerable refugees from Western Sahara in Algeria. WFP will use the funds to provide staple food... -
EU-funded cash assistance programme reaches more than 850,000 refugees in Turkey
Aug 6, 2017News Hour The number of refugees in Turkey receiving monthly cash assistance through an innovative relief program has now reached more than 850,000 and continues to rise. The EU-funded Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) supports the... -
Children on the move from Africa do not first aim to go to Europe
Jul 26, 2017News Hour: Children on the move into Europe from Africa take the decision to leave home on their own and do not initially intend to go to Europe. For the majority the systematic trauma and abuse... -
Over 7 million children are on the move in West and Central Africa each year
Jul 5, 2017News Hour: Children account for over half of the 12 million West and Central African people on the move each year, for some 75 percent of them remaining in sub-Saharan Africa, and less than one in... -
France supports WFP cash programme for refugees in Tanzania
Jul 4, 2017News Hour: The Government of France has contributed EUR 250,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) so that refugees in Tanzania can receive further cash assistance. Following a previous allocation of funds (EUR 750,000)... -
UNICEF appoints Syrian refugee Muzoon Almellehan as Goodwill Ambassador
Jun 19, 2017News Hour: UNICEF announced today, on the eve of World Refugee Day, the appointment of Muzoon Almellehan, a 19-year-old education activist, and Syrian refugee, as its newest – and youngest – Goodwill Ambassador. The appointment makes...
