News Archives
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UNHCR concerned as sub-Saharan Africans targeted in Libya
30 Aug 2011UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has issued a strong call for sub-Saharan Africans to be protected in Libya as reports emerge from Tripoli of people being targeted because of their colour as the city fell to rebel forces.
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Pakistan helping communities that have hosted Afghan refugees
26 Aug 2011In a region where sunshine is plentiful but rain is scarce, the use of solar power to pump groundwater is providing an innovative solution for thousands of people living in arid and remote villages in Balochistan in southern Pakistan.
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UNHCR experts send to remote Ethiopian area to help 18,000 Somalis
25 Aug 2011The UN refugee agency has sent a team of experts in several disciplines to a remote area of eastern Ethiopia where some 18,000 Somali refugees are in urgent need of aid after fleeing their country.
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UNHCR distributes aid to 30,000 displaced Somalis in past week
20 Aug 2011The UN refugee agency said Friday it is continuing to distribute emergency aid to displaced people in southern and central Somalia, reaching some 30,000 of them this week alone..
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UNHCR addresses “alarming” level of child mortality in Ethiopian camp
19 Aug 2011The UN refugee agency said Tuesday that child mortality rates at a camp for Somali refugees in eastern Ethiopia have reached “alarming” levels, with an average of 10 children under the age of five dying every day since the facility opened in June.
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UNHCR readies for transfer of Somali refugees to new camp areas
18 Aug 2011Staff from UNHCR and partner organizations were on Friday completing preparations for moving Somali refugee families from this weekend into a new area of the Dadaab refugee camp complex in northern Kenya.
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In Ethiopia, UNHCR moves more Somalis into new camp amid measles vaccination
11 Aug 2011Some 4,000 Somali refugees have been moved to a new camp in Ethiopia in an ongoing operation to decongest areas hosting recent arrivals from famine-hit Somalia.
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UNHCR launches landmark aid airlift to Mogadishu
11 Aug 2011A UNHCR-chartered aircraft carrying emergency aid for thousands of displaced people landed on Monday afternoon in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. It was the first UNHCR aid airlift to the beleaguered city in five years.
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Drought and displacement in Somalia: Fleeing from dust and starvation
8 Aug 2011Abdulahi Haji Hassan gazes at the exhausted and confused faces of his family and contemplates the toll that drought and famine has taken on their lives. His two-year-old son, Madey, leans listlessly against his mother’s breast.
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One year after Pakistan floods, humanitarian efforts for victims continue
5 Aug 2011One year after the onset of the worst flooding in Pakistan’s history, efforts to aid those who lost everything in the disaster continue, with UNHCR working to provide 45,000 vulnerable families with new homes.