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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/14/2025 4:27:56 PM
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced that, starting May 2025, the number of refugee families receiving regular multipurpose cash assistance in Egypt will be reduced due to a critical funding shortfall.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/8/2025 10:51:05 PM
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Thursday decried an "assault on children" after Israel closed all six of its schools in occupied East Jerusalem, months after an Israeli ban on its activities took effect.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/8/2025 7:20:37 PM
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Thursday that Israel had closed three of its schools in occupied East Jerusalem and forced the students out.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/3/2025 3:42:16 PM
Egypt has reaffirmed its support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), describing its work as “indispensable and irreplaceable” amid what it called a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/30/2025 5:45:39 PM
The United States told the International Court of Justice Wednesday that Israel must provide aid to Gaza, but the country does not have to work with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/29/2025 10:32:52 PM
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday said more than 50 of its staff in Gaza were abused and used as human shields while in Israeli military detention.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/27/2025 3:32:41 PM
"I hope things will be better now, safer. I want to return to my work," murmured a 29-year-old Sudanese woman, her voice carrying a thread of cautious hope as she boarded a crowded bus in downtown Cairo, bound for Sudan.
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World
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International
4/19/2025 4:30:13 PM
US Vice President JD Vance met with the Vatican's second-highest official on Saturday, in which they discussed the thorny issue of refugees just two months after Pope Francis incurred the wrath of the White House after lambasting the new US administration over its migration policies.
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Business
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Economy
4/15/2025 12:43:30 PM
A new analysis the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released on Tuesday in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) report highlighted the distinct fiscal challenges faced by developing and emerging economies when dealing with migration, particularly the large and unexpected flows of refugees.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/9/2025 9:26:23 PM
Egypt strongly condemned on Wednesday the Israeli occupation’s closure orders for six schools operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem.
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Egypt
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Society
3/17/2025 2:06:09 PM
Cabinet spokesperson Mohamed El-Homsani said Monday that the government is working with United Nations (UN) agencies to determine the financial burden of hosting refugees and foreign residents in Egypt.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/4/2025 4:26:56 PM
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KS Relief) and the World Health Organization (WHO) signed a cooperation agreement to support Egypt’s population of Sudanese refugees suffering from kidney failure.
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World
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International
2/19/2025 2:06:57 PM
The sound of children playing once again fills the streets of Burbaguena since a refugee centre opened in the small village in Spain's sparsely populated northeast, delighting older residents.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/19/2025 11:28:52 AM
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says Israeli forces raided four of its schools in east Jerusalem, ordering their closure.
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World
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Region
2/18/2025 6:16:01 PM
More than one million people have returned to their homes in Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, including 280,000 refugees who came back from abroad, the UN said on Tuesday.
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World
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War in Sudan
2/17/2025 1:05:07 PM
The UN appealed Monday for $6 billion to provide desperately-needed aid to people in war-ravaged Sudan and millions of refugees fleeing "appalling" conditions.
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World
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Region
2/11/2025 5:26:24 PM
Syria's semi-autonomous Kurdish administration aims to empty camps in the northeast of thousands of displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees, including suspected relatives of jihadists, by the end of the year, an official said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/11/2025 12:58:27 PM
US President Donald Trump will host Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House on Tuesday as he escalates pressure on the Arab nation to take in refugees from Gaza — perhaps permanently — as part of his audacious plan to remake the Middle East.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
2/4/2025 9:31:50 PM
The Israeli government is enforcing a ban on UNRWA, the only UN agency providing substantial relief for Palestinian refugees, with observers saying the goal is to attempt to end the Palestinian cause
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/4/2025 2:12:36 PM
The Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank is heading in a "catastrophic direction", the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday, adding that residents had "endured the impossible".
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