UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has voiced grave concern that the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) continued territorial gains in Sudan could unleash another mass exodus of civilians across the region. Speaking from Port Sudan, Grandi said the RSF’s capture of al-Fashir in October—a critical stronghold in Darfur—had been a turning point in the…
Nearly 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned from neighbouring countries since December, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday, even as Lebanon and Syria continue to grapple with a protracted displacement crisis. UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, Kelly Clements, concluded a visit to both countries where she met officials, returnees, and refugees…
A German court on Monday deliver verdict in the trial of a couple who killed a Ukrainian refugee and her mother in March 2024 to steal a newborn baby. The German couple admitted to killing the 27-year-old Ukrainian woman and her 51-year-old mother in order to abduct the younger woman’s five-week-old baby at first day…
The head of the UN refugee agency on Monday urged countries to drop measures to block refugees and migrants at their borders, saying they are ineffective and sometimes unlawful. Addressing more than 100 diplomats and ministers in Geneva at UNHCR’s annual meeting, Filippo Grandi said an unprecedented 123 million people are displaced around the world….
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi has visited the Jdeidet Yabous crossing on the border between Syria and Lebanon, Syria’s local media reported. “I was at the Syrian/Lebanese border, where a quarter of a million people have crossed since Sep. 23, when Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon escalated,” Grandi said on the social media…
