Day: June 20, 2021

UNHCR Applauds Somalia’s Open-door Refugee Policy

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Three decades of violence have left 2.9 million of Somalia’s citizens internally displaced, but the country is also home to 25,000 refugees, including 6,800 Yemenis and over 700 Syrians.Faith Kasina of the U.N.’s refugee agency, UN…

Tigray Families Displaced by War, Economic and Social Crisis

SHIRE, ETHIOPIA – Hundreds of displaced families trampled down the stairs carrying stained mattresses, logs and kindling for cooking and sacks of clothing and food. The families, more than 5,000 people in all, had fled battles in the northern Tigray…

UN Agency Says Cameroon Home to Half a Million Refugees

YAOUNDÉ – Marking World Refugee Day, June 20, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, is calling on host communities to show more sympathy and love for those fleeing crises in their home country and who are now threatened by COVID-19. The UNHCR s…