Anthonio Canhandula, the UNHCR country representative, has urged the government to create conditions that will ease the return of refugees to the country. They are 94,000 Nigerian ... Read more »
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has encouraged refugees and asylum seekers - who staged a sit-in protest outside the agency's offices in Cape Town for ... Read more »
A UN migration study, which interviewed 1,970 migrants from 39 African countries in 13 European nations, all of whom declared that they had arrived in Europe through irregular ... Read more »
Refugees and asylum seekers who seek relocation from South Africa due to fears of xenophobic violence maintain hope that the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) will assist ... Read more »
Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers have protested outside the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Cape Town calling for relocation to countries ... Read more »
The United Nations high commissioner for refugees is calling for urgent action to resolve the global forced displacement crisis as increasing numbers of people flee conflict, ... Read more »
More than 800 Namibian refugees are being forced to return home after resisting calls for voluntary repatriation citing fears of persecution from Namibian authorities. The refugees ... Read more »
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent a team of special envoys to the leaders of Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia to ... Read more »
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has said that a "toxic mix of socio-economic challenges", caused by the legacy of apartheid, is to blame for recent ... Read more »
Dar es Salaam's Regional Commissioner Paul Makonda announced a plan to carry out door-to-door searches and registration of immigrants in the capital. According to his office, there ... Read more »
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