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Thousands more flee air strikes in Sudan’s Blue Nile State
3 Oct 2011A fresh wave of air strikes in Sudan’s Blue Nile State since last Wednesday has sent increasing numbers of refugees fleeing into Ethiopia, with some 1,500 pouring through the Kurmuk border crossing last Friday alone. The latest bombs reportedly fell Monday.
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UNHCR steps up assistance to Pakistan flood victims
26 Sep 2011UNHCR teams are ramping up their distribution of tents and other emergency aid supplies to families displaced by severe flooding in Pakistan. The refugee agency has committed to supplying 70,000 tents and 70,000 emergency aid kits containing household items as well as other relief items to flood victims.
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UNHCR and Pakistan government launch major survey on Afghan refugees
21 Sep 2011An ambitious project to survey the world’s largest refugee population has been launched by UNHCR and the government of Pakistan.
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Thousands flee to South Sudan to escape clashes in Southern Kordofan
21 Sep 2011The UN refugee agency said Friday that more than 8,000 civilians have fled into the newly independent South Sudan to escape fighting in a volatile border state of Sudan.
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20,000 Sudanese flee to Ethiopia to escape fighting in Blue Nile state
14 Sep 2011A UNHCR team visits the displaced and finds that the physical state of the refugees generally appears good, but they need food, water and shelter.
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Amid improved security, UNHCR scales up operations inside Somalia
14 Sep 2011Taking advantage of an improved security situation in parts of Somalia, UNHCR is scaling up its presence in the capital and in border regions.
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UNHCR chief visits Mogadishu, urges massive humanitarian assistance
7 Sep 2011UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres urged the international community to rapidly increase aid to displaced Somalis during a landmark visit to the capital, Mogadishu.
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UNHCR chief Guterres calls for scaled-up aid effort inside Somalia
6 Sep 2011High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres visits Somalia and calls for greater efforts to provide life-saving aid to displaced Somalis inside their country.
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Somali exodus slows in Horn of Africa but grows in Yemen
2 Sep 2011The number of people fleeing their homes in Somalia on a daily basis has been falling this month, but a growing number of Somalis have been risking the high seas to reach Yemen.
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New Campaign: UNHCR launches global campaign for the stateless millions
1 Sep 2011“These people are in desperate need of help because they live in a nightmarish legal limbo,” High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said. “This makes them some of the most excluded people in the world. Apart from the misery caused to the people themselves, the effect of marginalizing whole groups of people across generations creates great stress in the societies they live in and is sometimes a source of conflict,” he added in a message to launch the campaign, which comes ahead of the 50th anniversary on Tuesday of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.