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THE World Health Organisation (WHO) says health facilities in Sierra Leone refugee camps might collapse under the strain of large numbers of refugees returning back across the border from troubled Guinea. The WHO said a new influx of refugees, spurred by the crisis in Guinea, would be “a step too far” for health facilities in […]

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday accused Guinea’s government of inciting mob violence in Conakry against Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees, whom authorities have accused of fuelling a rebellion. “The mobs drove refugees out of their houses, frequently beating, raping, and sexually abusing them. The attackers wielded sticks, rocks, iron bars, electric cords and knives,” according […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Khartoum | Saturday 3.45pm. SUDAN’S Kassala state, bordering Eritrea, has distributed its entire strategic food stock to Eritrean refugees fleeing the war with Ethiopia, the regional governor said on Saturday. According to a report by Akhbar Al-Youm daily, the number of Eritrean refugees fleeing into Sudan had reached 85000 by Friday with the […]

Jubie Matlou The thumping and rhythmic beats from a batar drum to the tune of a melodic choral rendition bring a small displaced community together. The place for this spiritual union is Mayfair, and the day and time is Sunday afternoon. The sound created by the batar drum is very special to the Somali refugee […]

MANOAH ESIPISU, Lusaka | Wednesday 3.35pm. THE United Nations refugee agency on Wednesday lambasted the 14 members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for rejecting refugees from outside the region. ”There is a tendency within SADC of not accepting refugees from outside the region. That is unacceptable,” United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) […]

UNITED Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata arrived at a refugee camp in Tanzania on Monday to visit thousands of refugees who have fled civil war in neighbouring Burundi. Ogata’s visit coincides with what officials say is the region’s worst refugee crisis since 1997 and with a fresh mediation attempt in the Burundi conflict […]

MORE than 7500 people have fled fighting in Angola and crossed the border into Zambia since January 1, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. The refugees who arrived in Sijembela, just across the border from Angola, had come from the areas of Luiana and Jamba, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said, adding that they […]

ABOUT 2400 Angolans — mostly children, women and elderly people — have fled to northern Namibia over the last 15 days to escape fighting between Angolan government forces and UNITA rebels, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday. Many of the refugees are arriving in Namibia’s Kavango region in […]

HUNDREDS of people fleeing fighting between government forces and Unita rebels in eastern Angola have been crossing into neighbouring Zambia since early September, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. A UNHCR official in the Zambian capital Lusaka said on Thursday that 200 refugees crossed over last month, while so far in October […]

THE US government has terminated the temporary refugee status granted in 1991 to Liberians who fled the raging war in their country. Attorney General Janet Reno had in a notice late July announced that the Temporary Protected Status that allowed Liberian war refugees to stay in the US would cease as from 28 September. In […]