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Foreign nationals in Tshwane abandon bail bid
They have appeared briefly in the Kgosi Mampuru Magistrates Court on a change of trespassing.
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SA isn’t a place of safety for us – refugee spokesperson
Refugees who have been camped outside the UN Refugee Agency's Pretoria offices for over a week are demanding protection and aid to leave South Africa due to victimisation.
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UN Refugee Agency head to conclude SA visit amid concerns by foreign nationals
Filippo Grandi arrived on Monday and met with representatives of refugees and asylum seekers in Pretoria.
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No place to call home: Desperate foreign nationals look to flee 'hate' in SA
Hundreds of foreign nationals from the DRC, Burundi, Somalia, Pakistan and Zimbabwe have been camping at the United Nations Refugee Agency offices in Cape Town since last Tuesday, desperate to leave a country they once called home.
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Foreign nationals urged to end UNRA sit-in and go home
Foreign nationals have spent three nights at the offices, demanding that the agency to assist them to leave South Africa.
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UN Refugee Agency says working to help foreign nationals in CT
Citizens from various parts of the continent staged a sit-in on Tuesday at the agency's Cape Town offices demanding they be assisted to leave South Africa.
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UN refugee agency ‘gravely concerned’ Biti refused asylum by Zambia
Tendai Biti is understood to be back in Zimbabwe where he is facing criminal charges relating to last week’s disputed presidential election.
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#WorldRefugeeDay: SA working to bring simpler system for migrants to get docs
The UN agency for refugee’s Markku Alkomus says in South Africa there are asylum seekers from 90 different nationalities.
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Take greater responsibility for your people, UN refugee chief tells South Sudan
UNHCR was still there, helping many of the same people now fleeing an internal conflict, he told local government officials in the northern town of Bentiu.
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UN airlifts aid into Angola for DRC asylum seekers
A UN team of investigators said this month that it had uncovered 40 mass grave sites and killings of more than 400 people in Kasai.
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At least 50,000 dead in South Sudan war - UN
The UN said last month that South Sudan’s warring parties are killing, abducting and displacing civilians.
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Refugees must return home once war is over - Merkel
Merkel has resisted pressure from some conservatives to cap the influx of refugees, or to close borders.
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African rivalries weaken UN hand against rebels in DRC
Ahead of a January deadline set by regional leaders, not one Hutu rebel had laid down his weapon.
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Western, Arab states pledge $1.4bn to Syria
The WFP said it has to raise $35 million every week to meet the food needs of residents.
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UN delivers food to 3.4 million Syrians
United Nations says it has supplied food to millions of Syrians in places affected by the unrest.
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Aid for Filipinos looted
Widespread looting of rice stocks and other supplies broke out in Leyte province.
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The Africa Report: 12 November
EWN’s Africa correspondent Jean-Jacques Cornish reports on the day’s top African news
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AU troops secure Somali aid corridor
The AU and Somali government troops secured an aid corridor between Mogadishu and Afgoye.
