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People wait for a bus to go in a train station in Severodonetsk, eastern Ukraine, on 7 April 2022, as they flee the city in the Donbas region. Picture: FADEL SENNA/AFP

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Another 52,000 Ukrainians flee war as refugees

By AFP

In total, 5,317,219 people have fled Ukraine as refugees since February 24, according to the latest data from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

  • A girl holds her sibling in a temporary shelter for Ukrainian refugees in a school in Przemysl, near the Ukrainian-Polish border on March 14, 2022. Picture: Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP.

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    Of those who have left, 2.2 million have fled for neighbouring Poland, while more than half a million have made it to Romania. Nearly 300,000 have gone to Russia.

    58 days ago
  • FILE: Of those who have left, 2.2 million have fled for neighbouring Poland, while more than half a million have made it to Romania. Nearly 300,000 have gone to Russia. Picture: AFP

    3.8 million people flee Ukraine: UN

    The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said 3,821,049 Ukrainians had fled the country -- an increase of 48,450 from Saturday's figures.

    59 days ago
  • A woman carries a dog while people cross a destroyed bridge as they evacuate the city of Irpin during heavy shelling and bombing on 5 March 2022. Picture: Aris Messinis/AFP

    Nearly 3.7 million people flee Ukraine: UN

    The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said 3,674,952 Ukrainians had fled the country -- an increase of 48,406 from the previous day's figure.

    62 days ago
  • Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel an attack in Ukraine's Lugansk region on 24 February 2022. Picture: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP

    Nearly 875,000 refugees have fled Ukraine conflict: UN

    In all, 874,026 people have fled across the country's borders, according to the website of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.

    84 days ago
  • A Qatar Airways aircraft takes off from the airport in Kabul on 9 September 2021. Some 200 passengers, including US citizens, left Kabul airport on on the first flight carrying foreigners out of the Afghan capital since a US-led evacuation ended on 30 August. Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP

    Two foreign journalists on assignment for UN detained in Kabul

    Two international journalists who were on an assignment for the UN refugee agency have been detained in the Afghan capital, the UNHCR said.

    103 days ago
  • Cameroonian refugees are seen in N'Djamena on 9 December 2021. Picture: AFP

    Escalating ethnic clashes in Cameroon forces 30,000 people to flee to Chad

    More than 30,000 people in northern Cameroon have fled to Chad after ethnic clashes at the weekend, claiming at least 22 lives.

    166 days ago
  • A woman walks through the huts at the 25 de Junio camp for the displaced people in Metuge on December 9, 2020 where over 16.000 displaced from the northern Cabo Delgado area are now sheltered. Picture: Alfredo Zuniga/AFP

    Slow aid response to Mozambique risks fuelling insurgency: UNHCR

    Jihadists, known locally as Al-Shabab and affiliated to the Islamic State group, have wreaked havoc in the gas-rich but deeply impoverished Cabo Delgado province since 2017.

    432 days ago
  • Soldiers stand guard along a blockaded road near Myanmar's Parliament in Naypyidaw on 2 February 2021, as Myanmar's generals appeared in firm control a day after a surgical coup that saw democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi detained. Picture: AFP

    Myanmar sanctions should target coup leaders, not people: UN

    Speaking before the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the UN's deputy rights chief Nada al-Nashif expressed concern after Washington announced sanctions on the generals behind last week's coup in Myanmar.

    468 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals on 16 October 2019 protested outside the offices of the UNHCR in Pretoria against xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Picture: Jean-Jacques Cornish/EWN

    Govt ‘unclear’ on whereabouts of refugees removed from PTA UNHCR offices

    The foreign nationals were removed from the Brooklyn building by police after they gained illegal access to the premises of the UNHCR.

    916 days ago
  • International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor on 18 November 2019. Picture: @DIRCO_ZA/Twitter.

    Pandor: UNSC didn’t discuss refugees who want to leave SA

    More than 180 of the refugees appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court on Monday and insisted they wanted to be moved to a country where they would be safe from xenophobic attacks.

    919 days ago
  • May God forgive South Africans – Foreign national

    Foreign nationals who’ve been camping outside the UN Refugee Agency in Pretoria for weeks share how they’ve been treated.

    922 days ago
  • Foreign nationals clash with police at UNHRC

    Scuffles broke out between refugees and police at the UN Refugee Agency in Pretoria on Friday.

    922 days ago
  • FILE: Protesters pictured on 16 October 2019 outside the offices of the UNHCR in Pretoria against xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Picture: Jean-Jacques Cornish/EWN

    Police call for reinforcements as refugees move into parking lot at UNHCR

    They are responding to a court order from Wednesday, giving them three days to end their sit-in outside the UN premises.

    923 days ago
  • PTA refugees: The life of a refugee doesn’t matter here

    A case of trespassing has been opened against refugees who entered and occupied the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office premises on Thursday. This comes after the North Gauteng High Court ordered refugees to vacate the area. They’ve been given three days to leave. The order was requested by residents of Waterkloof and Brooklyn. EWN spoke to one of the refugee leaders occupying the offices.

    923 days ago
  • FILE: Protesters pictured on 16 October 2019 outside the offices of the UNHCR in Pretoria against xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Picture: Jean-Jacques Cornish/EWN

    Rule rules authorities must assist refugees camping outside UNHCR offices

    By next week, officials should start drawing up a list of protesters legally in the country as refugees and asylum seekers and deporting those who are not.

    924 days ago
  • Foreign nationals are seen at the Greenmarket Square in the Cape Town CBD on 5 November 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    Foreign nationals call on international community to help them leave SA

    The men, women and children living in the Methodist church are sleeping on benches and floors on mattresses, blankets and yoga mats.

    932 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals were camping outside the UN Refugee Agency and asked for help to leave South Africa. Police clashed with the group on 30 October 2019. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN.

    Over 100 foreign nationals arrested in CT CBD clashes

    Dozens of people have been camping outside the UN Refugee Agency offices over the past few weeks.

    939 days ago
  • Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN.

    Cops, foreign nationals clash in CT CBD

    Foreign nationals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Pakistan and Zimbabwe have been camping inside and outside the agency offices. They're desperate to leave a country they once called home – and now want to leave because of safety concerns and xenophobia.

    939 days ago
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