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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/14/2024 1:25:59 PM
Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), stressed on Sunday that the Egyptian side has never closed the Rafah border crossing even for one day since the start of the war, but it is the Israeli side that obstructs aid entry, according to Al-Qahera News TV channel.
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Egypt
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Society
1/8/2024 10:37:12 PM
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly asserted Monday the importance of documenting the number of refugees and immigrants in the country, whose number is estimated at 8-9 million from 133 countries.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/4/2024 10:07:27 PM
The Egyptian Red Crescent established, in cooperation with the Palestinian Red Crescent, a relief camp for displaced Palestinian refugees in Khan Younis.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/27/2023 10:41:46 PM
The Egyptian Red Crescent has begun establishing a refugee relief camp in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Al-Qahera News reported on Wednesday.
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World
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War in Sudan
12/27/2023 12:08:25 PM
Sitting outside her makeshift shelter in eastern Chad, Sudanese refugee Mariam Adam Yaya warmed up tea on some firewood in a bid to quell the pangs of hunger.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/23/2023 2:54:29 PM
Israel's latest evacuation order for civilians in the central Gaza Strip would force them to relocate to areas "where there are ongoing air strikes", the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Saturday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/10/2023 1:41:29 PM
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has accused Israel of laying the groundwork for the mass expulsion of Gazans across the territory's border into Egypt.
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World
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International
11/25/2023 4:51:40 PM
Bangladesh police have clamped down on Rohingya refugees setting sail to Indonesia, officers said Saturday, after hundreds from the persecuted Myanmar minority took the long and risky sea voyage to escape squalid camps.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/23/2023 10:20:57 PM
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, met with Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in Cairo on Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
11/21/2023 8:48:59 PM
Head of the Norwegian Refugees Council Jan Egeland talks about the situation in the Gaza Strip and prospects for peace to Al-Ahram Weekly.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/18/2023 1:32:55 PM
The Israeli army ordered patients, refugees, and medical staff to evacuate the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by the occupation army, forcing them to make the more than 20-kilometre-long trek south on foot.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/16/2023 6:18:04 PM
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, warned Thursday of a deliberate attempt to paralyse its operations.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/13/2023 6:42:23 PM
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned Monday its operations in war-torn Gaza would shut down within two days due to fuel shortages as the war rages.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/8/2023 5:15:12 PM
Hamas accused Wednesday the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees of "colluding" with Israel in the "forced displacement" of residents of Gaza.
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World
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Region
11/7/2023 2:51:27 PM
Germany on Tuesday agreed to tighten rules for asylum seekers, cutting financial help for migrants seeking refuge and speeding up the decision process on whether to take them in.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/1/2023 10:36:03 PM
The United Nations will remain steadfast in supporting Palestinians in Gaza, Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said Wednesday during his first trip to the strip since Israel began its war.
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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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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/31/2023 3:52:44 PM
John Kirby, the US’s National Security Council coordinator, said they will talk with Egypt and other partners in the region about the possibility of them hosting Palestinian families fleeing the Gaza Strip on a temporary basis.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/31/2023 11:52:23 AM
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees told a U.N. emergency meeting Monday “An immediate humanitarian cease-fire has become a matter of life and death for millions,” accusing Israel of “collective punishment” of Palestinians and the forced displacement of civilians.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/27/2023 2:50:22 PM
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, warned Friday that Gaza is in urgent need of "continuous and impactful" aid, after three weeks of intensive Israeli airstrikes on the strip.
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