Continued US aid vital for Ukraine refugees returning home: UNHCR
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday it was vital for the United States to maintain its funding of humanitarian agencies to ease the refugee crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago. UNHCR requires $US993 million to fund its response to the crisis caused by the invasion, which […]
UN refugee agency: wave of migrants must be moved off island of Lampedusa
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said it was imperative that the thousands of migrants who have arrived in recent days on the Italian island of Lampedusa be relocated because of its limited resources. Around 7,000 migrants arrived on the shore of the small island in a two-day period, prompting pleas for […]
The Long Read: Hundreds of Afghans risk 11-country trek to seek haven in United States
MICA ROSENBERG, KRISTINA COOKE AND JACKIE BOTTS, of Reuters, recount four journeys of Afghan migrants who eventually reached the United States…