Sweet story: “Peace by Chocolate” documents Hadhad family’s extraordinary journey from Syria to Canada
By Tareq Hadhad and John Tattrie, as told to Lauren La Rose Tareq Hadhad ended the year much like he started it: marking two major milestones of his remarkable new life in Canada. The week before Christmas 2020 marked five years since Tareq landed in Canada as a...
Assistance slowly returns to refugee camps in southern Tigray
UNHCR regains access to Adi Harush and Mai Aini camps while two other camps for Eritrean refugees remain cut off by the ongoing insecurity. By Chris Melzer in Adi Harush camp, Ethiopia Abraham is less apprehensive now that he has seen aid workers return to Adi Harush...
IOM, UNHCR: Shipwreck off Libya Claims over 40 Lives
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency are deeply saddened by a tragic shipwreck off the Libyan coast yesterday (19/01), the first of 2021 in the Central Mediterranean, which claimed the lives of at least 43 people....
‘All I want is a doctor for my brother and a school for me’
More than 2,200 asylum seekers and refugees have now been relocated from reception centres on Greek islands and elsewhere in Greece to other European countries. By Martin Rentsch in Berlin Nasro Mohamed was desperate for a fresh beginning when she and her family were...
‘A whole new world has opened in front of me’
For 50,000 formerly stateless Uzbeks, citizenship will unlock the door to foreign travel, the right to vote and allow them a new-found dignity. By Agnieszka Pikulicka in Tashkent, Uzbekistan Hearing Uzbekistan’s national anthem after a victorious fight has always...
Thousands of Central Africans seek refuge in Cameroon
A resurgence of violence in the Central African Republic has driven 5,000 Central Africans to seek safety across the border in Cameroon. By Xavier Bourgois GAROUA-BOULAI, Cameroon – Sitting at the bar of a hotel in Garoua-Boulaï, a small town in eastern Cameroon on...
UNHCR finds dire need in Eritrean refugee camps cut off in Tigray conflict
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, regained access to two refugee camps in Tigray and found...
Number of Central African refugees soars as violence intensifies
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Boris Cheshirkov – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is calling for the immediate end to all violence in...