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World
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International
12/3/2024 5:43:46 PM
The United Nations warned Tuesday that the already unprecedented levels of forced displacement are set to worsen in 2025 as conflicts and disasters push ever more people to flee their homes.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/10/2024 10:42:41 PM
Hundreds of Sudanese refugees escaping the war in Sudan arrive in neighbouring Egypt daily, adding to the over 1.2 million who have already sought refuge there, a UN official said Sunday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/9/2024 5:37:00 PM
Egypt has become the largest host country for Sudanese refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict in Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Friday.
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World
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Region
10/6/2024 8:55:09 PM
The head of the UN refugee agency warned on Sunday that civilians in Lebanon are being endangered by Israel's relentless bombardment campaign that has forced many to flee while others remain trapped under fire.
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World
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War in Sudan
9/23/2024 10:17:12 AM
The UN's refugee chief questioned Sunday what future awaited the Sudanese people as the country's civil war rages, pushing its people ever further afield including to Uganda and Europe's maritime borders.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/24/2024 2:42:24 PM
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced Thursday that more than 748,000 refugees and asylum-seekers are registered with the UN agency in Egypt, most of whom are women and children who came fleeing the Sudanese war that broke out in April 2023.
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World
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International
6/13/2024 9:41:54 AM
A staggering total of 120 million people are living forcibly displaced by war, violence and persecution, the UN said Thursday, branding the ever-increasing number a "terrible indictment on the state of the world".
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World
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International
5/31/2024 3:08:57 PM
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi criticized the Security Council on Thursday over the growing number of people displaced by war and persecution, saying 114 million people had fled their homes worldwide.
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World
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Africa
5/29/2024 7:30:51 PM
Action must be taken immediately to address the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel or other countries will be drawn in and it will "become a problem for the world", a UNHCR official warned Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/25/2024 11:16:46 AM
The UN refugees agency in Egypt UNHCR revealed in its “Sudan Emergency Update in Egypt” that over 500,000 people have crossed the Egyptian-Sudanese borders from April 2023 to March 2024.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/28/2024 8:05:19 PM
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expressed regret on Wednesday that the high-level segment of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meetings saw several international parties turn a blind eye to the human suffering of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/24/2024 7:53:38 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry will head to Geneva on Sunday to participate in the high-level segment (HLS) of the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the HLS of the Conference on Disarmament.
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World
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Africa
11/1/2023 3:56:14 PM
Some 997,743 refugees have arrived in South Sudan in spontaneous returns from October 2018 to September 2023 after the signing of the revitalized peace agreement on the resolution of conflict, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
10/3/2023 5:37:28 PM
The Ivorian government has denied claims by international organisations that its nationals make up a large proportion of recent illegal arrivals in Italy.
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World
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International
9/30/2023 10:09:23 PM
The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday that some 186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in southern Europe so far this year, the vast majority in Italy.
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World
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Africa
8/29/2023 3:57:52 PM
The United Nations warned Tuesday that the political crisis in Niger and the sanctions imposed against the coup regime risk triggering "catastrophic" humanitarian effects.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/1/2023 9:10:44 PM
An effective international response to the Sudanese refugee crisis is still lacking despite escalating humanitarian needs.
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World
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Region
8/1/2023 7:14:50 PM
Syria has expressed its willingness to receive 180,000 displaced refugees from Lebanon at the first stage, said Lebanese Minister of the Displaced Issam Charafeddine on Tuesday.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/27/2023 5:34:28 PM
The Sudan conflict is worsening to "alarming levels" in Darfur and taking on a worrying ethnic dimension, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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World
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International
6/27/2023 4:35:05 PM
Over 2.4 million refugees globally will need resettling in 2024, a 20 percent increase compared to 2023, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Monday.
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