2012-04-24 15:22 FN:s flyktingorgan UNHCR The recent fighting near the border between Sudan and South Sudan has displaced some 35,000 people in areas around Heglig, Talodi and other parts of South Kordofan, according to our partners there. UNHCR does not have access to the areas in question, but we are channeling aid through local agencies.

2012-04-20 13:36 FN:s flyktingorgan UNHCR One month after the United Nations and its humanitarian partners issued an appeal for US$84 million to help Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, less than twenty per cent of the funds have been given. Of the 34 organisations that have appealed for funds under the Syria Regional Response Plan, only eight have received funding to date totaling US$15.6 million dollars.

2012-02-14 15:16 FN:s flyktingorgan UNHCR In Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania UNHCR is working with governments to relocate refugees fleeing Mali to safer locations away from border areas.

2012-02-07 13:47 FN:s flyktingorgan UNHCR UNHCR has deployed emergency teams to countries surrounding Mali to help meet the needs of some 20,000 people who have been forced to flee fighting in northern Mali. Most of the displaced are in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.

2012-01-13 15:45 FN:s flyktingorgan UNHCR UNHCR is increasingly concerned about insecurity in and around camps hosting hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa. The situation is particularly worrying, complex and tenuous in the Dadaab refugee camps in northern Kenya where the threat of improvised explosive devices, kidnappings, vehicle hijackings and banditry remains high.