Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday called on world leaders to spare no efforts in assisting countries in the Horn of Africa to break the cycle of conflicts and climate crises. Concluding a five-day visit to Somalia and Kenya on Tuesday, …
Read More »UNHCR boss Grandi visits Uganda
Rallies donors to respond to refugee funding crisis Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees returned to Uganda after three years to morale-boost donor support for Uganda’s faltering refugee response. The UN refugee agency which Grandi heads is grappling for resources to meet …
Read More »WHO warns of ‘new and dangerous phase’ as COVID-19 cases mount
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The world is entering a new and dangerous phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, as infection rates continue to climb, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. More than 150,000 new cases of the disease were reported on Thursday, the highest single daily total so far, …
Read More »Over one percent of humanity displaced: UN
Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Nearly 80 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to violence and persecution, marking a near-doubling of global displacement in a decade, the UN said Thursday. By the end of 2019, one out of every 97 people in the world was living uprooted …
Read More »South Sudan refugees face long exile: UN’s Grandi
Al-NIMIR REFUGEE CAMP, Sudan | AFP | The UN’s refugee chief said Tuesday a long period of exile lies ahead for South Sudanese refugees fleeing a war that erupted in their country after it split from the north. Tens of thousands of South Sudanese have been killed and millions displaced since …
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