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Refugees seek shelter at Cape church after violent clashes with police

Hundreds of refugees sought shelter at the Central Methodist Church in Cape Town following violent clashes with police on Wednesday. They told eNCA that seven children are missing. Police arrested around 100 foreign nationals occupying an office building in Cape Town as part of a sit-in protest against xenophobia, later releasing many of them. The refugees[…]

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Violent clash between police and refugees in CBD

A clash broke out in the CBD this afternoon between police and refugees staging a sit-in outside the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cape Town. Police arrived to remove the refugees, resulting in a battle that brought out stun grenades, tear gas and batons. More than 300 foreign[…]

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UNHCR: Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees may return home in 2019

Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, but persistent questions around documentation, forced military conscription and property ownership among the returnees must still be resolved, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. About 5.6 million Syrian refugees remain in neighbouring countries, namely Turkey,[…]

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Thousands flee famine, fighting in S.Sudan

South Sudanese continue to flee their country because of the ongoing fighting and famine. Almost 1000 South Sudanese, many of them women and children, are reaching the Sudanese border daily. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has set up reception centres at the border to provide humanitarian aid[…]

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Palestine children’s calendar launched

An invitation to participate in the inaugural Nablus Festival, coordinated by Project Hope and the Municipality of Nablus in April / May 2016, resulted in the conceptualisation of a collaborative project to benefit Palestinian children and to advance solidarity with Palestine internationally. Through extended engagement with over 200 Palestinian children,[…]

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