U.S. TROOP LEVELS: October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup. Jan. 31, 2010: 102,000. CASUALTIES: Confirmed U.S. military deaths as of Feb. ...
The United States and France were providing a total of 3.57 million euros (5.13 million dollars) in aid for DR Congo refugees in ...
Youssuf Abdullahi Mohammud was just 16 when he arrived in Nepal in 2007, the victim of a people trafficker who had promised to take him to Europe from his native Somalia. Mohammud, the eldest of five children whose father was killed by ...
Thailand has breached international law by forcing 158 recognised Hmong refugees, mainly children, back to Laos along with thousands of asylum-seekers, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Tuesday. The group, which had been held in a detention centre in the border town ...
Cambodia deports asylum-seekers back to China despite UN attempts to physically stop expulsion Cambodia deported a group of 20 Muslim asylum-seekers back to China, despite protests from the U.S. and the U.N., which rushed people to the airport in an attempt to ...
Cambodia said Saturday it would expel 20 Muslim Uighurs who sought refuge after unrest in China's Xinjiang region, despite protests from the United States and rights activists. The Cambodian interior ministry said the group would be sent "back to where they came ...
Cambodia is sending 20 Chinese Muslims who fled there after July unrest in Xinjiang back to China where they face possible persecution, a US-based Uighur rights organization said Friday. The group has been taken to the Phnom Penh airport and is about ...
The number of migrants fleeing the unstable Horn of Africa and arriving in Yemen rose by 50 percent this year, reaching a record high of 74,000, the UN refugee agency said Friday. The number of Ethiopians making the journey across the Gulf ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 74,000 Africans fled to Yemen this year, a 50 percent increase over 2008 despite instability in the country, according to figures issued on Friday by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Upheaval and economic ...
About 84,000 destitute villagers from northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have crossed the border into the Republic of Congo and need aid, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Tuesday. Inter-ethnic violence between two local tribes disputing farming and fishing rights has ...
Aid deployed so far for tens of thousands of refugees who fled ethnic violence in DR Congo into Congo-Brazzaville is not enough to meet their needs, the United Nations warned Wednesday. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said almost 77,500 people ...
The UN refugee agency said on Friday that it was encouraged by "increased freedom of movement" for war-displaced civilians in Sri Lanka who have been in internment camps in the north of the island. "We are encouraged by the Sri Lankan government?s ...
