Tag: Refugees

Three former U.S. presidents - Republican George W. Bush and Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama - have banded together behind a new group aimed at supporting refugees from Afghanistan settling in the United States following the recent American withdrawal.

A Sri Lankan man who may have unknowingly helped funnel money to terrorists behind the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka has been granted refugee status in New Zealand, Radio New Zealand reported.

More than half a million Afghans were displaced this year due to the fighting, the UN says

At least 12,000 people have been evacuated via Kabul airport since the start of a tumultuous rescue effort last Sunday. They include a mix of western government staff and aid agency workers

Afghan refugees have been making a desperate bid to escape the Taliban rule over the week. A new video has surfaced showing hundreds of refugees packed in a camp in Qatar in deplorable conditions.

The dwindling population of the Tamils in the Northern Province will lead to the dwindling of seats for the Tamils in the Sri Lankan parliament.

October 22 (Al Jazeera) - The United Kingdom has announced new funding for tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees now living in camps in Bangladesh after fleeing a brutal military crackdown in Myanmar three years ago, as civil society groups urged the countries convening the conference to acknowledge that genocide had been committed against the ethnic minority. Foreign Secretary Dominic ...

Aden/Sanaa, June 20 (Reuters) - Despite six years of war and hardship in Yemen, Somali refugee Bader Hassan had stuck it out hoping for a better life than in his homeland. But the coronavirus pandemic has pushed his precarious existence to the edge, and now he wants out. “Me, my wife and my son want to live in a good ...