This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 13 February 2009 There has been an ...

Young refugees are making the desperate choice of leaving for the dangerous route to Europe from Africa's largest refugee ...

In Africa's largest refugee camp, the effects of global aid cuts are not an abstract notion or lines on a spreadsheet.

DADAAB, Kenya, April 4 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and two sister organizations expressed deep concern at the weekend about the living conditions of more than 314,000 Somalis at a sprawling ...

Kenya on Wednesday agreed to suspend the closure of Dabaab refugee camp, the world’s largest, for six months after coming under fire over the fate of its 280,000 inhabitants, most of them Somalis. The ...

Every morning when 16-year-old Duol Ter wakes up in his hut in Kenya’s sprawling Dadaab refugee camp, he goes to see his cherished pigeons. He began with just two and now there are dozens of them, fed ...

According to our government Dadaab is to be closed down by November due to insecurity. Other countries are scrambling to pay attention and beg Kenya not to follow through. I believe that Dadaab is ...

Some other news now. Kenya is threatening to close one of the biggest refugee camps in the world, calling it a security risk. NPR's Eyder Peralta reports. EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: This is not the first ...

On a hot, dusty day this past fall, producer Bianca Giaever and reporter Roopa Gogineni arrived at Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya, home to some 220,000 displaced people. They would spend over a week in ...

The Government has received Sh10.8 billion from donors for the support of refugee camps, including Dadaab, which President Uhuru Kenyatta had vowed to shut down two years ago. Other than benefiting a ...

In early 1991, as guns rented the air in different parts of Somalia, families were separated, lives were lost, and thousands of people were displaced. The country was experiencing a civil war that ...

In the documentary Radio Dadaab, produced by the Environmental Justice Foundation(EJF), Fardowsa Sirat Gele remarked, “Back in 1991, during the civil war in Somalia, these people were fleeing from war ...