A record number of refugees streamed into EU member Hungary from Serbia, police said, just days before Hungary completes a border fence. A total of 2,093 potential asylum seekers, the highest ever daily total, crossed the border near the Hungarian town of Roszke, a police statement said on Monday. They[…]
Macedonian police have fired tear gas and stun grenades to drive back refugees trying to cross the border from Greece after they spent a night stranded by an emergency decree that has effectively sealed the Macedonian frontier. At least four refugees were taken for treatment on the Greek side of[…]
Typhoid has broken out among Palestinian refugees from the besieged Yarmouk camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday. UNRWA said it had been able to confirm the outbreak after gaining access to residents of the camp sheltering in the nearby Yalda neighborhood. “UNRWA[…]
Saudi Arabia has announced that it will provide $35 million to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in a bid to avert a financial crisis within the organization, a statement said. Yousef al-Bassam, Managing Director of the Saudi Fund for Development, said the donation aims to mitigate a funding crisis within[…]
With a world at war, the number of refugees resulting from the crisis in Ukraine is increasing. Civilians from East Ukraine where the conflict is concentrated are fleeing to other parts of the country as well as neighbouring countries such as Russia and Poland. The Ukrainian crisis has forced over[…]
The largest concentration of Arabs outside the Middle East is in Brazil, which has 9 million Brazilians of Arab ancestry, according to Saudi Aramco World. Of these 9 million Arabs, seven million are of Lebanese ancestry making Brazil’s population of Lebanese greater than that of Lebanon itself. Currently, the refugees[…]
The number of people fleeing the civil war in Syria has now passed four million, according to the UN refugee agency. An overwhelming majority of the refugees have fled to neighbouring countries, with Turkey hosting nearly two million alone, UNHCR said in a report released on Thursday. This is the biggest refugee[…]
With each passing day more and more people become refugees and asylum seekers, escaping from conflict and possible death in the home country. Organisations now have the task of resettling refugees in the countries in which they seek asylum. One such organisation is the Muslim Refugee Association of South Africa[…]
Everyday war, poverty and political unrest force people to leave their homelands in search of asylum and refuge in other countries. The United Nations estimates that by the end of 2014, almost 60 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict generalised violence or human rights[…]
Relatively few people are aware of the Rohingya people who stem from Burma. This group of people face discrimination on a daily basis and have now taken to the sea in order to seek refuge from a country that does not accept them as citizens. The daily struggle for survival[…]
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