The bodies of eight migrants have been found at sea off the coast of Libya by rescuers coming to the aid of four rubber dinghies, the Italian coast guard said Tuesday. Some 500 survivors were pulled to safety, the coast guard told AFP, illustrating the ...
Fear of Boko Haram attacks has driven at least 7,000 people from Niger to seek refuge in Chad in the last week, and thousands more may cross the border if the violence escalates, the United Nations said on Monday. The recent arrivals in Chad's Lake ...
Nearly half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in squalid Bangladeshi camps face staying "for some more time," the U.N. high commissioner for refugees said Monday. Filippo Grandi, the chief of UNHCR, visited two refugee camps in Cox's Bazar on the southeast coast where ...
Migrants rescued off the Libyan coast have described discovering a shipwrecked dinghy at sea, saying dozens of people including children were lost to the waves, the UNHCR and IOM said Tuesday. The migrants, interviewed by the U.N. refugee agency and International Organization for Migration on ...
The head of the United Nations refugee agency on Sunday urged Libyan authorities to free all asylum seekers and refugees from its detention centers as he visited Tripoli. "I hope first of all that asylum seekers and refugees can be taken out of detention centers," ...
Greece's port police said Monday at least 16 people, including women and children, have died in a suspected migrant boat sinking off the Aegean island of Lesbos. The bodies of six women, a child and two men were recovered in Greek waters, while the Turkish ...
About 146 migrants are feared dead after their boat capsized after leaving Libya, according to a Gambian youth who was rescued following the disaster, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday. The 16-year-old was barely conscious when he was spotted by the Iuventa, a ship belonging ...
After enduring years of fighting and food shortages, it was the deaths from hunger of many old women and children that finally made Rebecca James decide to flee South Sudan. Tired and hungry, James is among hundreds of South Sudanese refugees — mostly women and ...
Somali refugee Ahmed Omar Bihi said on Wednesday that he fears for his wife's sanity following Donald Trump's travel ban and accused the U.S. president of "dismantling all our dreams. Trump's executive order curbing immigration has sparked international outcry, provoking chaos for travelers and bewilderment ...
Afghanistan's president Wednesday welcomed back Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed woman immortalized on a National Geographic cover, after she was deported from Pakistan to the war-torn homeland she first fled decades ago. Pakistani officials handed over Gula, whose haunting eyes were captured in a cover photo ...
Soon after he was elected leader of Portugal's center-left Socialist Party in 1992, Antonio Guterres added a red rose motif to the clenched, raised fist that was the party's traditional symbol. It was a political re-branding that also captured the softer, kinder image of Guterres. ...
The status of refugees and displaced people continues to worsen since the European refugee crisis first gained widespread attention in 2015. In the news refugees may be portrayed as powerless victims, but the tremendous strength they show in taking strides toward a better future ...
